When prisoners, the officers usually gave their parole and were only restricted to a city away from the theatre of war.

When, in 1967, after his death at the age of 91, Germans were asked what they admired most about Adenauer, the majority responded that he had brought home the last German prisoners of war from the USSR, which had become known as the " Return of the 10, 000 ".

When the prisoners were interrogated, it became clear that the information possessed by the guerrillas, who had planned to assassinate Stroessner, could have come only from a high Colorado official.

When Rome and Carthage made peace in 241 BC, Rome secured the release of all 8, 000 prisoners of war without ransom and, furthermore, received a considerable amount of silver as a war indemnity.

When the jailer awoke, he prepared to kill himself, thinking all the prisoners had escaped and knowing that he would be severely punished.

When the besieged garrison of Kaunas surrendered in 1915, 20, 000 Russians became prisoners.

When Ensslin devised an " info system " using aliases for each member, the four prisoners were able to communicate again, circulating letters with the help of their defence counsels.

When World War I began in 1914, all political prisoners were relocated from Warsaw into Russia proper.

When he was informed of the massacres of Italian prisoners, Omar Bradley told Patton that U. S. troops had murdered some 50 – 70 prisoners in cold blood.

When the team was unable to find a way to extract their two prisoners, they decided to wait for a mob of pro-Ayatollah revolutionaries to storm the jail and free all 10, 000 inmates, many of whom were political prisoners.

When the Buchenwald camp was evacuated, the SS sent the male prisoners to other camps, and the five-hundred remaining women ( including one of the secret annexe members who lived with Anne Frank, " Mrs. van Daan ", real name Auguste van Pels ) were taken by train and on foot to the Theresienstadt concentration camp and ghetto in Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia.

When Debs was released from the Atlanta Penitentiary, the other prisoners sent him off with " a roar of cheers " and a crowd of 50, 000 greeted his return to Terre Haute to the accompaniment of band music.

When the Soviets arrived they in general took all German prisoners back to a Gulag in Soviet Union where life expectancy was about five years.

When the human prisoners are threatened by the Ewoks, Luke levitates the droid above the crowd as demonstration of the supposed god's ability, so as to prompt release.

They were, like those babies, nearly dead from hunger ..." When Field Marshal Montgomery wanted to allot each German citizen a guaranteed diet of only 1, 000 calories a day and justified this by referring to the fact that the prisoners of the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp had received only 800, Gollancz wrote about starvation in Germany, pointing out that many prisoners never even received 1, 000 calories.

When the Ming army finally captured Yunnan from Mongols in 1382, thousands of prisoners were killed and, according to the custom in times of war, their young sons – including Zheng He – were castrated.

When the Bishop of Valence and Charles de La Rochefoucault, sieur of Randan, sent by the king to negotiate, arrived in Scotland they were almost treated like prisoners.

When the film was released, the U. S. government's Office of Censorship declined to approve it for export overseas during wartime, because of the " long sequence showing life in a prison chain gang which is most objectionable because of the brutality and inhumanity with which the prisoners are treated.

When the crocodile appears, Hook flees to his office while telling Smee to have their prisoners walk the plank.

When Sir Ralph Abercromby communicated in 1796 that he was transferring 4, 000 prisoners from the West Indies, the Board began the search for a site for a new prison.

According to R. J. Rummel, " Just consider the Grand Custom in Dahomey: When a ruler died, hundreds, sometimes even thousands, of prisoners would be slain.

When the Free State started to execute Republican prisoners, the first to be shot were four young men who had left Na Fianna to join the Republican Army.

When they were closer and he saw that one was a woman, he was more puzzled than ever.

When they were finally satisfied, Jones said, `` I think he's going to give us work ''.

When they were ready to leave, Benson and Ramey walked back around the rear of the trailer.

When they reached the school, a gang of boys and girls were already there playing `` crack the whip '' in front of the schoolhouse.

When these had been pocketed, we could still spend a morning cracking open other pebbles for our delight in seeing how much prettier they were inside than their dull exteriors indicated.

When he discovered they had received from the Company's Court of Directors no permission to live in India, coupled with the fact that they were Americans who had been sent to Asia to convert `` the heathen '', he became more belligerent than ever.

When Prudence and Blackberry were too young to be trusted in the dining room, they were tied to the radiator with their leashes, and they would cry.

When they were first written, there was evidently no thought of their being published, and those which refer to the writer's love for Mrs. Meynell particularly have the ring of truth.

When their levies came shambling into camp, they were all elbows, hair, and beard.

When, in March, 1640, the two towns were united under Coddington, Gorton claimed the union was irregular and illegally constituted and that it had never been sanctioned by the majority of freeholders.

When the negotiations began, his quarrel with the king of France was temporarily in abeyance, and he had no intention of reviving it so long as there was hope that French money would come to pay the troops who, under Charles of Valois, the papal vicar of Tuscany, were so valuable in the crusade against the Colonna cardinals and their Sicilian allies.

When these chores were finished, only then, was she allowed whatever freedom she could find.

When Sir Edward Greville enclosed the town commons on the Bancroft, Quiney and others leveled his hedges on January 21, 1600/1, and were charged with riot by Sir Edward.

When it was over, eight of his company were still alive and all eight were wounded.

When the stock exchange opened this morning, many dealers were quick to purchase shares in Douglas, Lockheed and United Aircraft and prices rose substantially.

When the end did come, and the schools were disbanded and abandoned, we felt and hoped that the machinery of psychological warfare would not be allowed to rust.

When we got there, Trig and the Negro were quarreling over possession of a gold crucifix around the neck of a wounded Filipino.

When it was proposed to rebuild the church, Wilson found that the terms for a new mortgage were very high.

When something unexpected happened, one always asked for water if one were a woman, brandy if one were a man.

When Papa's slender fingers removed the spectacles, there were red indentations on the bridge of the strong nose.

When the telephone rang on the day after Hino went down to the village, Rector had a hunch it would be Hino with some morsel of information too important to wait until his return, for there were few telephones in the village and the phone in Rector's office rarely rang unless it was important.

When values of temperature derived with this instrument were compared with the accepted values associated with liquid helium-4 vapor pressures, differences of about 10 and 7 millidegrees respectively were found.