Stalag Luft III (The camp of The Great Escape) (Żagań)
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Second World War 1939-1945, POW camp
Stalag Luft III (Stammlager Luft, or Permanent Camp for Airmen #3) was a German Air Force prisoner-of-war camp during World War II that housed captured air force servicemen.
The site was selected because it would be difficult to escape by tunnelling. However, the camp is best known for two famous prisoner escapes that took place there by tunnelling, which were depicted in the films "The Great Escape" (1963) and "The Wooden Horse" (1950), and the books by former prisoner Paul Brickhill and Eric Williams from which these films were adapted.
The site was selected because it would be difficult to escape by tunnelling. However, the camp is best known for two famous prisoner escapes that took place there by tunnelling, which were depicted in the films "The Great Escape" (1963) and "The Wooden Horse" (1950), and the books by former prisoner Paul Brickhill and Eric Williams from which these films were adapted.
Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stalag_Luft_III
Nearby cities:
Coordinates: 51°35'54"N 15°17'50"E
- D.A.G. Alfred Nobel Ammunition factory 29 km
- Cemetery of Soldiers the Polish Second Army 54 km
- Pz.W.708 84 km
- Międzyrzecz Fortification Region - Boryszyn Loop 86 km
- Roll call 95 km
- Prisoners blocks 95 km
- New camp 95 km
- Quarry 95 km
- Gross-Rosen concentration camp 95 km
- Supposed site of hypothetic Nazi goldtrain hidden in 1945 111 km
- Military train platform 0.3 km
- Cemetery of Prisoners Camp Stalag VIIIC in Sagan, tortured and murdered in 1939-1945 by the Nazis 0.8 km
- Zagan Train Station 1.4 km
- Koszary Żagań 2 km
- Electrical sub-station 2.1 km
- hydropower plant 2.3 km
- District Headquarters of State Fire Service in Zagan 2.3 km
- Market 2.4 km
- hydropower plant 2.7 km
- ZSTH 59 2.7 km