In March 1944, using a patiently dug tunnel, some 80 P.O.W.s crushed out of Stalag-Luft III in a single night. Yet only a few escaped from Nazi territory. Of those recaptured, the Germans reported ...

At the North Compound, I visited the Harry Tunnel Monument. This monument is a tribute to the Great Escape, which inspired the 1963 film “The Great Escape,” starring Steve McQueen, James Garner and ...

Editor's Note: On the night of March 24-25, 1944, 76 Allied prisoners of Stalag Luft III, a German prison camp in Sagan, 100 miles southeast of Berlin, escaped through a tunnel named "Harry." ...

John acted as the lookout while others dug a 100ft tunnel beneath the piece of exercise equipment. Stalag Luft III was also the setting, the following March, for what became known as The Great ...

Jimmy was responsible for depositing sand from the tunnels under the seats of the camp theatre. A secret message for MI9 concealed behind a photo of POW Guy Griffiths, sent from Stalag Luft III by ...