We were held hi a German prison for some time.

The goal was to exchange Leijon for 8 of his comrades held in German prisons.

He was released from German prison, July 5, 2009.

He spent the rest of the war in various German prisons.

The sentences did not exceed 9 months imprisonment, a sentence which was served in a German prison.

For the majority of them however, Špilberk was only a station on their way to other German prisons and concentration camps.

Both notebooks were written in German prison, after 1939, the year when the Cyrillic script was established.

Over the next seven months, Beyrle was held in seven different German prisons.

"Clearly," he continued, "this is not a terrific place to be for anyone and he is in a tough German prison."

Many liked to imagine that their vanished soldier, freed at last from some secret German prison, would one day reappear.