"Internment camp" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Cesk Slovo, E. Spatny, of Prague, was arrested on September 26, 1914, and interned in Prague, without being told the reason. In March, 1915, he was transferred to the internment camp at Gllersdorf, in Lower Austria. The Czechs interned there arranged on July 5 a Hus anniversary at which the editor E. Spatny and Dr. Vrbensk spoke about the life and importance of Hus. Being accused by a certain fellow-prisoner, Davidovsk, that they ...
— Independent Bohemia • Vladimir Nosek
... lodging I was accorded a most friendly reception, for my hostess was French. Her nephew had come up from Paris to visit her a few months before the outbreak of the war, and had been unable to get back to France. To avoid the dreaded internment camp he had successfully passed as a Luxemburger. In the regiment there were a number of men whose parents came from the Duchy; these and a few more who spoke German acquired a sudden popularity among their comrades. They would make friends with some of the villagers and arrange to turn ...
— War in the Garden of Eden • Kermit Roosevelt |
