Sentence examples for for the commandant from inspiring English sources

The new regime made the campus the headquarters for the commandant of Columbia.

The justices quickly picked up on this, with Lewis Powell asking Amsterdam, who is Jewish, whether he thought capital punishment was appropriate for "the commandant of Buchenwald".

For example, the first meeting I had with Jonathan, I was wearing a black leather glove, and he asked me to keep it for the commandant.

Munk filmed the flashbacks on location in Auschwitz, obtaining several of the most unnerving Holocaust scenes in movie history — notably, a sequence in which the male camp orchestra performs for the commandant and his staff.

The most remarkable scene of Munk's "The Passenger" is one in which the male camp orchestra gives a performance for the commandant, his officers, and some of the inmates.

As for the Commandant himself, he is not exactly a Kurtzian chieftain-god of the jungle: his weapons and provisions all come from the political faction he is fighting for and to whom he is beholden.

The killing throughout the camp went as planned, except for the unexplained absence of the commandant.

The mechanic had picked the Steyr 220 – the fastest car in Auschwitz, there for the sole use of the commandant.

One day, when his jailers held a party, Mujica began to scream for it; the commandant, embarrassed in front of his guests, relented.

Kaing Guek Eav (aka Duch) had been previously convicted of crimes against humanity and war crimes for being the commandant in charge of the notorious "killing fields" prison during the Khmer Rouge regime, where at least 12,272 individuals were executed, and many were tortured.

Thomas Harding: Could a German Jew really have been a war crimes investigator for the British, responsible for tracking down the commandant of Auschwitz?