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Originally Posted by Victoria
A quest for justice - such an excellent interpretation of the theme! And it fits it literally as well. I heard stories about this growing up, because a friend of our family was a POW in that camp. He had tuberculosis and was in an isolation unit, so didn’t participate at all. However apparently a Acadian man from the village next to ours was there as well, and was involved in helping to plan. He was later invited to see the premiere of the movie, when it came out.
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The last of the Great Escapers, Dick Churchill, died earlier this year:
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-devon-47257570
He was one of the men recaptured but was not executed because the Nazis apparently thought he might be related to Winston Churchill:
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/history/...execution.html
I've always loved the movie version, which led me to Paul Brickhill's book long ago. A few years back I read Tim Carroll's book
The Great Escape from Stalag Luft III, which adds to the story and does include some information about the Gestapo killers and how they were hunted down.