Franz von Werra
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Franz Xaver Freiherr von Werra was a German World War II fighter pilot and flying ace who was shot down over Britain and captured. He was the only Axis prisoner of war to escape from Canadian custody
Franz Freiherr von Werra
Franz von Werra's Bf 109E-4, pictured at Marden, Kent
Hardy Krüger
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Hardy Krüger was a German actor and author who appeared in more than 60 films from 1944 onwards. After becoming a film star in Germany in the 1950s, Krüger increasingly turned to roles in internationa
Franz von Werra
…1940. His story was told in the book The One That Got Away by Kendall Burt and James Leasor, which was made into a film of the same name, starring Hardy Krüger. Franz Freiherr von Werra was born on 13 July 1914, to impoverished Swiss parents in Leuk, a town in the Swiss canton of Valais. The title of Freiherr…
in 1955
Hardy Krüger in 2009
Krüger and his wife Anita in 2013
Hardy Krüger at the Locarno film festival in 1955