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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...
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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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  • escape from the Nazi German Luftwaffe (Air Force) prisoner of war camp Stalag Luft III for British and Commonwealth enemy airmen. As a prisoner in the camp...
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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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  • 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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    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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    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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    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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  • Roger Bushell (category Participants in the Great Escape from Stalag Luft III)
    Air Force aviator. He masterminded the famous "Great Escape" from Stalag Luft III in March 1944, but was one of the 50 escapees to be recaptured and...
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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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    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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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    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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    shoemaker at the camp. The watch (Rolex watch no. 185983) was delivered to Stalag Luft III on 10 July that year along with a note from Wilsdorf apologising for...
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  • Stanisław Król (category Participants in the Great Escape from Stalag Luft III)
    persistent escaper and for the part he played in the 'Great Escape' from Stalag Luft III in March 1944 being one of the men recaptured and shot by the Gestapo...
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  • Stalag Luft 7 was a World War II Luftwaffe prisoner-of-war camp located in Morzyczyn, Pomerania, and Bankau, Silesia (now Bąków, Poland). It held British...
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