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4 unusual facts about Stalag Luft III


Alvin Vogtle

He spent three years at camps including Stalag Luft III, Dulag Luft, Offlag XXI-B, Sagan, Nuremberg and Moosburg.

Barry Mahon

Mahon was imprisoned at Stalag Luft III and managed to escape, but was captured on the Czech border when his feet became too sore to go on.

Darkest of Days

Other locations include the battles of Antietam and Tannenberg, and the German World War II prisoner of war camp Stalag Luft III.

Robert M. Polich, Sr.

After being captured in Germany, Lt. Polich was first brought to a German hospital, then later confined in Stalag Luft III.


Alfred B Thompson

Thompson was sent to several POW camps before ending up at Stalag Luft III near Sagan.

Greville Janner, Baron Janner of Braunstone

At the age of 18 he joined the British Army, where he served in the War Crimes Investigation Unit near the former Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in occupied Germany, and worked on cases of killings at Stalag Luft III.

Max Wielen

Wielen is significant in that he was directly implicated in the Stalag Luft III murders, in which members of the RAF who were involved in the "Great Escape" were killed.

Number of deaths in Buchenwald

However, on the night of 19 October, seven days before their scheduled execution, 156 of the 168 airmen, including Lamason, were transferred from Buchenwald to Stalag Luft III by the Luftwaffe.

Robert Stanford Tuck

Saved for the moment, Tuck then spent the next couple of years in Stalag Luft III at Żagań (Sagan), before making a number of unsuccessful escape attempts from several other prisoner of war camps across Germany and Poland.


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Joseph Kayll

He was transferred to Stalag Luft III at Sagan in May 1943, and was in charge of the Escape Committee for the East Compound.