After arriving at the Borgnis-Desbordes barracks near Versailles ... when the war with the USSR started to demand ever more human resources. Most French-speaking Alsatians and Lorrainians ...

“The Soviet Union was still there ... allowed to go on a trip to Budapest and then return straight back to the barracks. We could not let them out. We were afraid of the Hungarians, besides ...

As the Soviet Union consolidated its control on Sakhalin ... The Furihato family lived in one room in an old barracks. Occasionally, by agreement, the Japanese government would send a ship to ...