“For Those Who Missed It The Great Escape … For Those Who Missed It THIS IS A MANHUNT. Roll camera, roll away Sturges. The motorcade swings into Neustadt Station. Nazis à la mode arrive in swank gangster cars. That’s him in the lead car. I need to pause here. Is it a Mercedes Benz 260D or the popular Mercedes 540K cabriolet? Reich Marshall Hermann Goering, the Luftwaffe chief, was vigorously fond of the 540K. The armoured sedan limousine pretty much served as the moveable clubhouse of the Third ...Reich. I point the remote. A sea of darkness. A bit of history. STALAG LUFT III Stalag Luft III was no ordinary prisoner of war camp. The POWs called it Goering’s luxury camp. The Luftwaffe chief betrayed a chivalrous kinship with the Allied Air Force. Goering believed that captured enemy flyers deserved escape-proof comfort. Completed in April 1943, the camp was situated in a forested region of Silesia, an eastern part of Germany, as far as possible from the Western Front.MoreLessRead More Read Less
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