She was appointed a Commandant of the Legion of Honor in 1987.
A group of retired military leaders, including a former commandant of the U.S. Marine Corps and a former Navy secretary, sent a letter to Congress last week reviewed by Reuters urging lawmakers to keep the credit, but reform it.
A flashback details the horrors of the Third Reich and finally reveals that Reissman had been a perpetrator — the commandant of a death camp.
The only time in the last parliamentary term that a debate aroused real interest across Europe was when Silvio Berlusconi, Italy's prime minister, compared a German deputy to the commandant of a concentration camp.
Continuing on his unprincipled way, Spradlin, still curling his lip, was equally effective as a CIA boss in The Man With the Deadly Lens (1982); a martinet commandant of a southern military academy in The Lords of Discipline (1983), and an ignorant and malicious small-town sheriff in Tank (1984).
I was riveted by Martin Amis's "The Zone of Interest," with its daring projection into the mind and "heart" of a character (Paul Doll, the commandant of a Nazi concentration camp) who, like Nabokov's Kinbote, is a tour de force of crazed self-delusion.
In assessing these various options, we need to keep in mind the range of roles that people can occupy, ranging from being the parent of or being a university professor to being the commandant of a concentration camp or the member of a terrorist organization.
During this time, Prevost had been stationed as commandant of a military prison in Elmira, New York.
A few months ago, a retired two-star Army general named Robert Scales, a former commandant of the Army War College, summarized a view often heard from the men in green.
In July Comrade Duch, the commandant of an infamous prison, was handed a 35-year sentence for war crimes and crimes against humanity, reduced to 19 years against time served and a period of illegal detention.
