Notable is Ms Sereny's account of her sustained interviewing of Franz Stangl, who had been commandant of the extermination camp at Treblinka, after a German court had sentenced him to life imprisonment.Usefully, Ms Sereny explains the difference between the various kinds of Nazi prison camp concentration camps like Dachau and Buchenwald, labour camps, and extermination camps.
This official, whose title had been Commandant of the Capital (Zhongwei 中尉) before 104 BC, maintained law and order in the capital city excluding the imperial palaces in both Western Han Chang'an and Eastern Han Luoyang.
Brunos father, strict and remote but not without a flicker of paternal tenderness, has been promoted to commandant.
A senior Marine general who commanded forces in Iraq and Afghanistan has been admonished by the commandant of the Marine Corps for saying publicly, "It's fun to shoot some people" (news article, Feb. 4).
This mansion, originally the home of the Brooklyn Navy Yard commandant, has been converted to a private residence, largely hidden behind high brick walls draped in ivy.
Should he end up at State, that would almost certainly clear the NSA path for retired four-star general and former Marine commandant Jim Jones, who has been discussed as the frontrunner for the spot regardless.
Mr. Cohen has been a strong ally of the Marine Corps commandant, Gen. James L. Jones, who supports the Osprey program.
Gen. James L. Jones, a retired former commandant of the Marines and supreme commander of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, has been mentioned as an out-of-the-box choice for Senator Barack Obama.
"I am a director of a society which has been set up to protect the tower," the commandant, Bushire, replied.
The second figure was Rudolf Hoess, who had supervised the building of Auschwitz and had been its commandant from May, 1940, to December, 1943.
He was largely forgotten and already living in quiet retirement when he unintentionally catapulted himself into the limelight in an Argentinian television interview, shown in April 1998, by admitting that he had been a commandant at Jasenovac.
