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Victims of The Great Escape

Nov 14 2011in Evasion and Escape, Real Life Stories JacksunTags:
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Victims The day after the mass escape from Stalag Luft III, Hitler gave personal orders that every recaptured officer was to be shot. Reichsmarschall Hermann Göring, head of the Luftwaffe, Reichsführer Heinrich Himmler, chief of state security, and Field Marshal Wilhelm Keitel head of the German High Command, who had ultimate control over prisoners of […]

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