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Stalag Luft III (German: Stammlager Luft III; literally "Main Camp, Air, III"; SL III) was a Luftwaffe-run prisoner-of-war (POW) camp during the Second World War, which held captured Western Allied air force personnel.
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.
The Stalag Luft III murders were war crimes perpetrated by members of the Gestapo following the "Great Escape" of Allied prisoners of war from the German Air Force prison camp known as Stalag Luft III on March 25, 1944.
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.
The largest Allied prisoner-of-war escape attempt didn't go as planned, but it has lived on history. The true story, and tragic ending, of 76 Allied prisoners' 'Great Escape' from the Nazis Skip ...
Established in the Spring of 1942, three years into the Second World War, Stalag Luft III was a camp run by the German air force, the Luftwaffe, around 130 miles (209 kilometers) southeast of ...
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 .
Stalag Luft III may have been the friendliest toward pilots out of all the P.O.W. camps in Germany. Since the German Luftwaffe ran Stalag Luft III, there was an understanding between the prisoners ...