stalag

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Guantánamo was a virtual stalag, where far more innocents than terrorists were unjustly incarcerated.

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  • So Park's first feature was Chicken Run (2000), a brilliant homage to The Great Escape featuring the brave and resourceful inmates of a stalag-like chicken coop Now, finally, we have a Wallace and Gromit feature. —  FSF - March2006
  • Now they entered a region of stalag-stalac-those pointed pillarlike things that lived in caves. —  Harpy Thyme
  • A stockade, a prison camp, stalag, ghetto, torture chamber, charnel house, abattoir, duchy, fiefdom, Army co-op mess hall ruled by a neckless thug. —  F ;SF; - vol 087 issue 04-05 - October-November 1994
  • Guantánamo was a virtual stalag, where far more innocents than terrorists were unjustly incarcerated. —  Latest Articles
  • Wade: It's like Demitri Martin on Daily Show, but even less hilarious. christopherdavis: a whovillian conversation in russia during a presidential race will get you thrown in stalag 13 —  Wade on Birmingham
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  1. German, short for Stammlager, base camp : Stamm, base, stem (from Middle High German stam, from Old High German; see stā- in Indo-European roots) + Lager, camp, bed (from Middle High German leger, from Old High German legar, bed, lair; see lager).
 

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