The 50 Great Escapists At Poznan Cytadela
48 of the 50 Great Escapists are buried here, at Poznan Cytadela
Buried here, at Poznan Cytadela, are The 50 Great Escapists (48 of them, anyway) whose ingenious feat of stealth engineering allowed them to escape what was designed to be an escape-proof prison camp - Stallag Luft III - as immortalized in the movie, “The Great Escape.” Steve McQueen’s motorcycle scene was fake, but…
The real story is even more fantastic in terms of the prisoner’s ingenuity - including: a tunnel entranceway through a false floor in a shower drain; support structure to uphold loose sand; fabricated air ducts; documents and civilian clothes..
Posted by more specific view of the 50 on Tue, 07 Jun 2016 20:04 | #
A more specific view of the 50