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...
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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...
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returned to the Lazarett (medical care facilities) at the parent stalag. Stalag Luft III, a large prisoner of war camp near Sagan, Silesia, Germany (now...
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Stalag Luft I was a German World War II prisoner-of-war (POW) camp near Barth, Western Pomerania, Germany, for captured Allied airmen. The presence of...
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account of the 1944 mass escape from the German prisoner of war camp Stalag Luft III for British and Commonwealth airmen. As a prisoner in the camp, he...
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as Stuart O'Neill, a POW at Stalag Luft III Robert Hands as Major Gustav Simoleit, Deputy Commandant at Stalag Luft III Saro Emirze as Hanns Scharff...
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German prisoner-of-war camps in World War II (redirect from Stalag VI-A)
Luft Oberursel, Frankfurt Stalag Luft I in Barth Stalag Luft II in Barth (Germany) and Łódź (Poland) Stalag Luft III in Sagan (Żagań, Poland) Stalag Luft...
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Roger Bushell (category Participants in the Great Escape from Stalag Luft III)
South African RAF aviator. He masterminded the "Great Escape" from Stalag Luft III in 1944, but was one of the 50 escapees to be recaptured and subsequently...
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Vincent Parker (section Stalag Luft III)
prisoner of war, Parker escaping was constant. He escaped from Stalag Luft I and Stalag Luft III. In May 1942, the German prison authority sent Parker to a...
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the site of the camp to house mementos and records of both Stalag VIII-C and Stalag Luft III. List of prisoner-of-war camps in Germany Stanek, Piotr;...
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Ernst Kaltenbrunner. In March 1944, after the "Great Escape" from Stalag Luft III prisoner-of-war camp, Nebe was ordered by Heinrich Müller, Chief of...
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POWs from the Stalag VIII-C and Stalag Luft III were brought to Stalag III-A, and also POWs from the Stalag XXI-C in Wolsztyn and Stalag Luft 7 in Bąków...
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Jimmy Buckley (section Stalag Luft III, Sagan)
Sagan. Buckley, with all other POWs from Barth, was transferred to Stalag Luft III in April 1942. The escape organisation remained unchanged with Buckley...
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World War II. He is best known today for having been the commandant of Stalag Luft III, which is famous for the 'great escape' which took place in 1944. Friedrich...
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1939 and held in twelve different prisoner of war camps, including Stalag Luft III, later the site of the "Great Escape". As the last of the "39ers" (those...
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Bram van der Stok (category Participants in the Great Escape from Stalag Luft III)
decorated aviator in Dutch history. In March 1944, he broke out of Stalag Luft III – a prisoner-of-war camp in Nazi Germany – during the mass break-out...
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Sydney Dowse (category Participants in the Great Escape from Stalag Luft III)
including Dowse, was able to do so. In May 1942, Dowse was transferred to Stalag Luft III at Sagan with a batch of other RAF officers. Dowse's next escape attempt...
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Jens Müller (pilot) (category Participants in the Great Escape from Stalag Luft III)
Little Norway in Canada and a prisoner of war in the German POW camp Stalag Luft III. He was one of only three men to escape to freedom in the "Great Escape"...
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escape by British Commonwealth prisoners of war from German POW camp Stalag Luft III during the Second World War. The film made numerous compromises for...
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Gale Cleven (category Stalag Luft III prisoners of World War II)
Bremen, Germany. Cleven was then taken as a prisoner-of-war to Stalag Luft III and Stalag VII-A, before escaping to American lines in March 1945. During...
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in the Oflag XXI-B, Stalag Luft IV, Stalag Luft 7, Stalag VIII-A, Stalag XX-A, Stalag XX-B, Stalag XXI-B, Stalag Luft III and Stalag VIII-C POW camps, located...
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Jimmy Keddie (category Participants in the Great Escape from Stalag Luft III)
during the Second World War. He took part in the 'Great Escape' from Stalag Luft III in March 1944 and was one of the men captured inside the tunnel after...
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Stalag Luft II (German: Stammlager Luft II; literally "Main Camp, Air, II"; SL II) was a Luftwaffe-run prisoner-of-war (POW) camp during World War II...
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Per Bergsland (category Participants in the Great Escape from Stalag Luft III)
1992) was a Norwegian fighter pilot and POW in the German POW camp Stalag Luft III and one of only three men to escape to freedom in the "Great Escape"...
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Stalag XX-B, Stalag XX-A and Stalag Luft IV. Many of the men in Stalag Luft VI, the camp closest to the Russian advance, were transported to Stalag XX-A...
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Force. He was the senior officer in command of the West Compound at Stalag Luft III prisoner of war camp after being shot down and captured in 1944. Alkire...
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set up for Allied pilots, called Stalag Luft III. In March 1942, the town became the location of the Stalag Luft III camp for captured airmen (Kriegsgefangenen...
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participation in the 1944 mass escape from the German prisoner-of-war camp Stalag Luft III. An English-language translation was published in 2019. Müller served...
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Wally Floody (category Participants in the Great Escape from Stalag Luft III)
implementing the "Great Escape" from the German prisoner of war camp Stalag Luft III. Floody was born in Chatham, Ontario, and attended Northern Vocational...
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Jerry M. Sage (section Stalag Luft III)
he was captured by the Germans. Sage was taken to the prison camp Stalag Luft III, where he passed himself off as an airborne infantry officer, never...
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