Stalag Luft III was a Luftwaffe-run prisoner-of-war camp during the Second World War, which held captured Western Allied air force personnel.
Model of the set used during production of the 1963 film 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" tunnel showing how close the exit was to the camp fence
The Stalag Luft III murders were war crimes perpetrated by members of the Gestapo following the "Great Escape" of Allied prisoners of war from the German Air Force prison camp known as Stalag Luft III
Stalag Luft III
…the prisoner of war camp known as the "London Cage". He testified during the British Special Investigation Branch (SIB) investigation concerning the Stalag Luft III murders. Originally one of Göring's personal staff, after being refused retirement, Lindeiner had been posted as Sagan commandant. He had followed the Geneva…
Memorial to "The Fifty" down the road toward Żagań.
The Hamburg Curio Haus, photographed in more recent times