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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German prisoner-of-war camps in World War II (redirect from Stalag VI-A)
Army. Dulag Luft Oberursel, Frankfurt Stalag Luft I Barth [3] Stalag Luft II Litzmannstadt (Poland) Stalag Luft III Sagan [4] Stalag Luft IV Groß Tychow...
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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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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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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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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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