kommandantur

Over in the kommandantur a German stenographer, disgusted at the shooting of the fifty, sent in a message-by a tame guard that she had heard through her work that all prisoners who escaped henceforth were to be shot.

THE GREAT ESCAPE BRICKHILL, PAUL 1951

Canton recognised him as a German doctor from the kommandantur and quickly hid his face behind a paper.

THE GREAT ESCAPE BRICKHILL, PAUL 1951

Would the Group Captain be good enough to wait on the new Kommandant in the kommandantur at eleven a.m., bringing his official interpreter.

THE GREAT ESCAPE BRICKHILL, PAUL 1951

Lamentably they were faced with failure of their mission an unthinkable disgrace; so, in Gestapo fashion, they decided to search their own people in the kommandantur.

THE GREAT ESCAPE BRICKHILL, PAUL 1951

As the wail of the sirens died, the stooges at the windows heard faintly the rumble of the first bombs dropping on Berlin, sixty miles away, and almost in the same moment a German over in the kommandantur switched the power oft and all the lights went out.

THE GREAT ESCAPE BRICKHILL, PAUL 1951

A Luftwaffe major who flew transport aircraft used to bring in choice wines and foods from Denmark and they had a little store of the stuff under the kommandantur cook house We heard that a German who wasn't in on the game split on them to the Gestapo.

THE GREAT ESCAPE BRICKHILL, PAUL 1951

In the pine wood across the kommandantur, gaunt Russian prisoners had felled some trees to clear a patch and workmen were putting up the long, wooden huts.

THE GREAT ESCAPE BRICKHILL, PAUL 1951

Just before eleven o'clock, Massey was escorted out of the gate with his personal interpreter, Squadron Leader Wank Murray, They were only kept waiting a few moments in the kommandantur and then they were shown into the Kommandant's office, a normal barrack room, but with a carpet, a leather chair, a large desk, and on the wall behind it the standard decor of Luftwaffe offices-photographs of Hitler and Goering.

THE GREAT ESCAPE BRICKHILL, PAUL 1951

"I have some business," and he walked back out of the gate and over to the kommandantur, where he found Rubberneck, the ferret Adolf and another new ferret in their barrack blocks.

THE GREAT ESCAPE BRICKHILL, PAUL 1951

Place Foch, World War I memorial and rubble of the German kommandantur

Army Rumour Service 2009