Greatest Escapes of WWII

Discover WWII's most daring breakout stories of courage and cunning: Colditz Caste, The Great Escape and the bold Warburg Wire Job.

A daring dash through Nazi Europe, a deadly mountain escape and WWII's largest breakout, by men who chose death over dishonour.

A mass German prisoner of war breakout from Island Farm that stunned wartime Britain, the daring escape of an American bomber crew trapped in the Soviet Union and the Trojan Horse of Stalag Luft Three.

A Russian soldier leads a desperate breakout from a secret Nazi death camp, and Operation Chicken, a plan to flee from an escape proof Japanese prison camp

In the heart of the American desert a group of German submariners cause havoc at their internment camp. A playboy pilot seems to be incapable of being held for very long, and young lovers, whose escape defies all the odds.

In America one last German soldier defied the FBI for 40 years, the Auschwitz prisoners who released the secrets of the death camps, and the merciless Nazi that almost got away.