"We're getting some significant scrutiny from the commandant himself," he said, referring to Admiral Robert J. Papp Jr., who heads the agency.
Serving in the US Marine Corps during the Korean conflict, Mr. Bloch completed a unique research project at the Library of Congress focusing on recordings made under combat by marine correspondents during WWII in the South Pacific, receiving commendation from the Commandant of the Marine Corps and the Librarian of Congress.
With allied troops at the gates, Robert Limpert, a young theology student from Ansbach, tries to hinder Wehrmacht efforts to defend the town by cutting the phone wires from the commandant's base.
During most of the period from 1940 to 1945, the commandant of the central Auschwitz camps was SS-Hauptsturmführer (Captain) Rudolf Franz Höss.
The events of the story unfold from three narrative standpoints – Angelus "Golo" Thomsen, the hero (his name cribbed from historian Golo Mann, Paul Dolll, the commandant of the camp, and Szmul, head of the Sonderkommando (prisoners who were charged with disposing of bodies, "the crows of the charnel house").
On cluttered display tables sat a scale model of Hitler's mountain eyrie the Kehlsteinhaus, a twisted machine gun from Hess's crashed plane, the commandant's phone from Buchenwald, hundreds of helmets, mortars and shells, wirelesses, Enigma machines, and searchlights, all jostling for attention.
The commandant from the desk marches down the aisles: "Your sessions will end in five minutes.
Spending days on all fours, begging, rolling over and seizing hunks of meat with his teeth from the mouth of the commandant's German shepherd — with which he forms an animal bond — Adam is a "good dog".
From 1823 to 1828, he was the commandant of Ascension Island in the South Atlantic, which was followed by a posting from 1829 to 1835, as Superintendent of Fernando Po off the coast of Africa.
Shots from hidden snipers whizzed past us from all directions, and eventually the commandant in charge deployed an ancient armored car to batten down the courthouse gates as soldiers and gendarmes ambled behind it for cover.
Shots from hidden snipers whizzed past us from all directions, and eventually the commandant in charge deployed an ancient armoured car to batten down the courthouse gates as soldiers and gendarmes ambled behind it for cover.
