While on antisubmarine duty with the St. Laurent 75 miles west of Ireland in July 1940, he orchestrated the rescue of about 860 survivors of the British liner Arandora Star, which was sunk by a German U-boat while carrying German and Italian prisoners of war and interned aliens from Liverpool to Newfoundland.
The fourteen Bf 109G Gustavs acquired from the Germans (including two interned) proved increasingly difficult to maintain, and were removed from service in 1947, although the "Emil" variants purchased earlier continued on until 1949.
While interned on release from El Biar, Alleg wrote at high speed a manuscript describing his torture in calm, precise and horrifying detail, naming the soldiers responsible, and succeeded in smuggling it out to Paris, where it was published in book form as La Question in February 1958.
He was among the first interned aliens shipped off from England to Canada.
Mr. Gierek was interned briefly, then retreated from public life, living quietly with his wife, Stanislawa, in his native Silesia, and writing his memoirs.
A generation of working-class Catholics who had faced death, fought back and been interned or imprisoned, emerged from the prisons and pariah status and are now regenerating places whose previous manufactured product was cannon fodder.
Those routes would be used until the end of the war by both interned soldiers and volunteers from Poland, who jocularly called themselves "Sikorski's tourists" and embarked on their dangerous journeys, braving death or imprisonment in concentration camps if caught by the Germans or their allies.
All German forces should be expelled from Austria-Hungary within 15 days or interned, and the Allies were to have free use of Austria-Hungary's internal communications and to take possession of most of its warships.
Now, families who cannot travel from Baghdad to Bucca to see an interned relative can go to Camp Cropper and be linked by video.
She was stunned, Ms. Scottoline said, until her father explained a little-known footnote to the history of World War II: nearly 700,000 Italians living in the United States were required to register as enemy aliens, and 10,000 were forcibly relocated away from the coastlines, put under curfew or interned in camps.
