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Escape from Germany is a 2024 American historical drama film written and directed by T. C. Christensen. Escape from Germany was released in the United States on 11 April 2024. [ 2 ]
He is the only German World War II POW to escape and return to Germany. (However, see below the April 29, 1944, escape to Tibet.) April 18, 1941 – Twenty-eight Germans escaped from Angler, Ontario, through a 150-foot-long (46 m) tunnel. Originally over 80 had planned to escape, but Canadian guards discovered the breakout in progress.
East German border troops were instructed to prevent defection to West Germany by all means, including lethal force (Schießbefehl; "order to fire"). [1] Gerhard Wagner (b. 1939) was a qualified aircraft engineer. Whilst still a student, he had almost fled during construction of the Berlin Wall. However, he later accepted the situation.
Major Francis Edward Foley CMG (24 November 1884 – 8 May 1958) was a British Secret Intelligence Service officer. As a passport control officer for the British Embassy in Berlin, Foley "bent the rules" and helped thousands of Jewish families escape from Nazi Germany after Kristallnacht and before the outbreak of the Second World War. [1]
ODESSA is an American codename (from the German: Organisation der ehemaligen SS-Angehörigen, meaning: Organization of Former SS Members) coined in 1946 to cover Nazi underground escape-plans made at the end of World War II by a group of SS officers with the aim of facilitating secret escape routes, and any directly ensuing arrangements.
The Real Great Escape: the story of the First World War's most daring breakout. North Sydney: Vintage. ISBN 9780857981141. Hanson, Neil (2011). Escape from Germany: The Greatest PoW Break-out of the First World War. London: Doubleday. ISBN 9780385612043. Winchester, Barry (1971). Beyond the Tumult. London: Allison & Busby. ISBN 0850310571.
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The British escape officer decided that the glider should be available for use in case the SS ordered the massacre of the prisoners as a way to get a message out to approaching American troops. The glider was approaching completion when the American Army liberated the prisoners on 16 April 1945.