Stalag Luft III was a Luftwaffe-run prisoner-of-war (POW) camp during the Second World War, which held captured Western Allied air force personnel.
Model of the set used to film the movie The Great Escape. It depicts a smaller version of a single compound in Stalag Luft III. The model is now at the museum near where the prison camp was located.
Friedrich Wilhelm von Lindeiner-Wildau, Kommandant of Stalag Luft III.
End of "Harry"
End of "Harry" tunnel showing how close the exit was to the camp fence
German prisoner-of-war camps in World War II
Nazi Germany operated around 1,000 prisoner-of-war camps during World War II (1939-1945).
Administration Barrack III in Oflag XD, drawn by Belgian officer POW Léon Gossens, 1944
Diorama of the German World War II PoW camp Stalag Luft III.
Collection of everyday items of Polish prisoners from the Oflag VII-A Murnau.
Stalag XVII-B Monument at Andersonville Prison