9 sentences with 'prisoners'
Example sentences and phrases with the word prisoners and other words derived from it.
• « In 53 BC, at a place known as Carrhae, the Persians killed 20,000 Roman soldiers, took 10,000 prisoners and killed Crassus. »
• « The caliphs themselves had become honoured prisoners of more powerful invading forces from 945 onwards, and the territories of the former caliphate were divided among numerous sultans, an Arabic word that simply means "ruler". »
• « Behind these armoured divisions the main body of German infantry neutralised the remaining resistance and typically managed to take thousands (sometimes hundreds of thousands) of prisoners of war. »
• « Concentration camp prisoners (both Jewish and non-Jewish) were all, by definition, slaves of the Nazi regime, put to work in factories, quarries, forests and workshops and "paid" in meagre rations. »
• « By the late autumn of 1941, killing facilities were under construction at the Majdanek and Auschwitz concentration camps, both built as slave labour camps in 1940. There, the first experiments with the infamous pesticide Zyklon B were carried out on Russian prisoners of war. »
• « Nazi extermination camps were not intended to house prisoners for slave labour; new arrivals at an extermination camp were usually dead within two hours. They were, in short, "death factories", murder production facilities that operated on industrial timetables. »
• « The most infamous of the camps is undoubtedly Auschwitz. Auschwitz was a great exception among the extermination camps in that it housed Jewish prisoners who were not immediately murdered. »
• « Shortly after the speech, Nikita Khrushchev released four million prisoners from the gulags as a practical gesture demonstrating his sincerity. This period is called "The Thaw" in Soviet history. »
• « Days before the episode, Dr. Land had started an experiment with the prisoners: soothing, relaxing music was piped into each prisoner's cell at a frequency impossible for any normal ear to hear. The professional's intention was to discover whether this would modify the behaviour of the most rebellious prisoners by being picked up unconsciously. »