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The "Great Escape" was a World War II mass escape from the German prisoner-of-war camp Stalag Luft III. It resulted in the murder of 50 recaptured escapees. It was the basis of The Great Escape, a book by Paul Brickhill describing the escape and The Great Escape, a film based on the book.
Pages in category "Stalag Luft III prisoners of World War II" The following 29 pages are in this category, out of 29 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
He was taken to Stalag Luft III and, aged 21, was the youngest man to escape through 'Harry' tunnel on 24 March 1944. He was captured on 28 March and interrogated by the Gestapo before being returned to Stalag Luft III, where he spent his 22nd birthday (9 April 1944) in the cooler. He died at his home in Canada in 2004.
Diorama of Stalag Luft III. The camps for Allied airmen were run by the Luftwaffe independently of the Army. Dulag Luft Oberursel, Frankfurt; Stalag Luft I in Barth [84] Stalag Luft II in Barth (Germany) and Łódź (Poland) [85] Stalag Luft III in Sagan (Żagań, Poland) [86] Stalag Luft IV in Groß Tychow (Tychowo, Poland) [87] Stalag Luft V ...
The following is a list of historically infamous prison ... escaped from Stalag Luft III during ... a 45 meter long tunnel was dug and 111 political prisoners, ...
19 January 1945 – evacuation from Stalag Luft 7 at Bankau, near Kreuzberg, Poland, begins in blizzard conditions – 1,500 prisoners were force marched then loaded onto cattle trucks and taken to Stalag III-A at Luckenwalde, south of Berlin. Evacuation of work party 344 at (Piaski), part of Stalag VIIB, prisoners commenced march on foot.
By scanning three consecutive days of the Times Recorder on Sept. 22, 23 and 25, 1944, I discovered the Times Recorder kept its readers abreast of all that was happening with our local soldiers.
He testified during the British SIB investigation concerning the Stalag Luft III murders. Allied former prisoners at Stalag Luft III testified that he had followed the Geneva Conventions concerning the treatment of POWs and had won the respect of the senior prisoners. [4] He was repatriated in 1947.