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76 prisoners escaped from Nazi camp Stalag Luft III

80

years ago

25 March 1944,

76 prisoners fled the Nazi prison camp Stalag Luft III. More than 600 prisoners participated in the tunnel construction and, once completed, 200 were selected to escape. But in full flight, the guards found the tunnel. Of those who managed to escape 73 were captured, of which 50 were immediately executed. Only three managed to prevent the Nazis from being run over them. The Great Escape is a film based on these facts.

Source:

Tim Carrón, The great escape from Stalag Luft III. The Full Story of How 76 Allied Officers Carried OutWorld War II’s Most Remarkable Mass Escape (Pocket Books).

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1944-01-26

Born Angela Davis, left-wing entrepreneur, feminist and African-American

1944-02-09

Gypsy boxer Rukeli was killed by the Nazis in Neuengamm concentration camp

1944-03-23

Italian anti-fascist partisans attack Nazis in Rome

1944-03-25

76 prisoners escaped from Nazi camp Stalag Luft III

1944-03-27

US aircraft bombed Anglet and Biarritz

1944-04-21

They recognized women ' s right to vote in the French State

1944-05-26

Marseille workers started a general strike in the middle of World War II

1944-06-09

Antifascist Johanna Kirchner was executed by the Nazis in Berlin prison

1944-06-16

George Stinney, an innocent 14-year-old, is killed in the U.S. electric chair.

1944-06-27

The Nazis carried out a raid in Zuberoa against the citizens of the Hospital

1944-06-29

The Nazis returned to the hospital and looted farms

1944-07-03

Red Army enters the ghetto of Minsk

1944-07-20

German officer Klaus von Stauffenberg tried to kill Hitler

1944-07-22

The establishment of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank

1944-07-27

Florentino Goikoetxea, border of the Comète Network, was released from Nazi hands by resistance members at the hospital in Baiona

1944-08-10

Resistance member Daniel Argote was arrested and executed by the Nazis in Orthol

1944-08-14

Italian fascists killed the Irma Partisan Flag

1944-08-22

30 Spanish machines, with four members of the French resistance, defeated the column of the Nazi army, composed of 1,300 men

1944-08-22

Revolutionary trade unionist Maria Oneker killed by the Nazis in Warsaw in an uprising against occupation

1944-08-24

Anti-fascist soldiers liberated the city of Paris occupied by the Nazis

1944-10-07

Hundreds of Auschwitz prisoners rebelled against the Nazis

1944-12-01

The French carried out the massacre in Senegal by France II. Fighting soldiers in MG

1944-12-10

Nine machines were killed in Catalonia by former civil guards and Francoist soldiers

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1939-03-16

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