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  • AWB "kommando" members currently detained in terms of Article 29 of the Secrtuty Act. They are being held in connection with the theft of arms and ammunition from the defence force at the Group

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1993

  • Robota organized a rebel group within the kommando and made contact with the Jewish underground in the camp.

    Roza Robota. 2009

  • Robota worked in the clothing kommando (labor unit) where the personal belongings of the dead were sorted; over time, she attained a relatively high status at this post.

    Roza Robota. 2009

  • What I do have is a company list from an Unterföhring work kommando listing where his name appears as a medic.

    Moosburg Online: Stalag VII A (Oral history: Kruger) 2007

  • On only 3 occasions was the Man of Confidence permitted to visit kommando camps for inspection.

    Moosburg Online: Stalag VII A (Oral history: US POWs) 2000

  • In the same month, an American enlisted man on kommando was paid the equivalent of $13.00 a month.

    Moosburg Online: Stalag VII A (Oral history: US POWs) 2000

  • Similarly, the 1400 man kommando working daily in the debris of Munich, was not paid because the labor performed by them was considered, by the Germans, to be "emergency" labor; to which anyone resident in the Reich was subject without pay.

    Moosburg Online: Stalag VII A (Oral history: US POWs) 2000

  • The camp was set up by the kommando to show support for rightwing

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1994

  • It means killer traffic warden, kommando traffic warden, kung fu traffic warden!

    Gridlock Elton, Ben 1991

  • British commando halted to-day would not reach Fauresmith until evening to-morrow; a Boer _paarde kommando_ will have done its fifty miles by the time one of our 'crawlers' outspans for breakfast.

    On the Heels of De Wet Lionel James 1913

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