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Hans Larive

He later wrote his memoir Vannacht varen de Hollanders (1950), which was republished translated into English as The Man Who Came In From Colditz (1975) - a pun on the bestselling novel The Spy Who Came in from the Cold.

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At Leisnig Larive and Steinmetz took a train to Nuremberg where they waited for their next train in a nearby park.

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This route into Switzerland was discovered by Dutch naval lieutenant Hans Larive in 1940 on his first escape attempt from an Oflag (prisoner's camp for officers) in Soest.

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