• Rolf Magener (3 August 1910 – 5 May 2000) was the first German prisoner to escape successfully from India during the Second World War. His daring escape...
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    finally succeeding. On 29 April 1944, Harrer and six others, including Rolf Magener and Heins von Have (disguised as British officers), Aufschnaiter, the...
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    before finally succeeding. On 29 April 1944 after lunch a group of seven, Rolf Magener and Heins von Have disguised as British officers, Harrer, Aufschnaiter...
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  • finally escaping from Tibet ahead of the People's Liberation Army in 1950. Rolf Magener and Heins von Have went east, passing through Burma and across the front...
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  • Firbas, 79, Czech linguist. Don Kindt, 74, American football player. Rolf Magener, 89, German escapee from India during World War II. Bill Musselman, 59...
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  • Yeats Yeats, William Butler Wade, Allan (editor) 1954 Prisoners' Bluff Magener, Rolf Creighton, Basil (translator) 1954 Call to Greatness Stevenson, Adlai...
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