After being released from Allied prisoner-of-war camps following World War II, Theo and Karl Albrecht took over their parents' small grocery in the bombed-out city of Essen and, out of necessity, sold only a small number of essential items.
Piantoni, though partly of Italian extraction, regarded himself as very much a man of Lorraine, where he was born in Etain, the son of an amateur footballer who played for the local team, La Mouriere, after being released from a German prisoner of war camp.
This organisation had been formed to arrange accommodation as well as social and medical services for New Zealand military personnel who were expected to be released from prisoner of war camps in Germany when the war ended.
Some of the officers had recently been released from prisoner-of-war camps by the Germans and Italians, having been captured during the invasion.
There is another moment, told in flashback, when Avram, delirious in the hospital, having been released from captivity after the war, when he was led to believe that Israel had been fully defeated, asks Ora: "Is there... Is there an Israel?" Again, the tension becomes so great that you hold your breath.
Among the male survivors seen in "Paragraph 175," one tells of torture; another recalls a daring but vain attempt to rescue his lover from a Gestapo camp by donning a Hitler Youth uniform; a third remembers his years in concentration camps; and yet another tells how he was released from prison during the war only to find that all the men were gone.
At the time of Cleghorn's birth, the Apache people had been prisoners of the U.S. government since the surrender of Geronimo in 1886, but, when she was four years old, they were released from their prisoner-of-war status.
Western security contractors, Sunni insurgent groups, Shiite paramilitary units and criminals who were released from prison by Saddam Hussein before the war all sought the same weapons at once.
