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Stalag Luft III: The POWs Who Escaped The Nazi Fortress | WW2 Prisoners of War (2017x10)

Air date: Mar 10, 2017

The notorious Stalag Luft III was a specially built prison camp on Germany's border with Poland. It held 10,000 Allied airmen of all nationalities during the Second World War, and was designed to be escape proof. But for Allied prisoners of war, it was their duty to escape.