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  • His unconventional 'kriegie' (short for 'kriegsgefangener' or POW) education began in the prison 'lazaret' (dispensary).

    My Kriegie Education 1942-1945 1944

  • One old guard was assigned per car, and often as he slept, a kriegie held his rifle.

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

  • Men still on the march from northern camps passed the word of the death, and one kriegie with a trumpet played

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

  • One kriegie climbed a watch tower in the morning to verify it was abandoned.

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

  • Men there ate what they thought would be their last kriegie meal behind barbed-wire, as they listened to the bullets zing through the compound, and explosions from a distance showered them with ceiling plaster and shatterings of plaster from the walls.

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

  • Jeffers turned to see a fellow kriegie put a thin cooking pot on his head offering meager, yet, comical protection.

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

  • As a kriegie leader reported after the war, “Every time a group of prisoners…crawled underground to a point outside the camp there was the saddening anticlimax of finding German guards pointing rifles into their exit hole and ordering them to solitary confinement.”

    Masters of the Air Donald L. Miller 2006

  • On a wall next to his bunk, an enterprising kriegie created a gallery of “impatient maidens,” row upon row of snapshots of women, including one in her bridal dress, who had sent “Dear John” letters to husbands and boyfriends at Sagan.

    Masters of the Air Donald L. Miller 2006

  • But this kriegie ingenuity produced a daily diet that barely sustained life.

    Masters of the Air Donald L. Miller 2006

  • The most popular items in the kriegie libraries were Swiss movie magazines featuring photographs of impossibly gorgeous Hollywood queens.

    Masters of the Air Donald L. Miller 2006

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