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	Stalag Luft III PoW camp, Sagan. Fleet Air Arm Archive 1939-1945 - The Men - Prisoners of War
		Monument to the PoWs at Luft III Sagan
		A number of well known Fleet Air Arm Officers were interned at Stalag Luft III, including Lt Cdr J Casson, RN and Lt PE Fanshawe RN both of 803 Naval Air Squiadron, who were shot down together on 13 June 1940 during a dive bombing attack on the German battleship Scharnhorst at Trondheim, Norway.
		John Casson was also a leading actor in Stalag Luft III along with Sub Lt Rupert Davies RN another Fleet Air Arm airman ex of 812 Naval Air Squadron who had been shot down in his Swordfish with Lt NM Hearle and captured on 22 August 1940.
	www.fleetairarmarchive.net /RollofHonour/POW/StalagLuftIII.html (1173 words)

	luft 3
		Stalag Luft 3 - was built in the vicinity of Żagań, controlled directly by the High Command of Luftwaffe.
		The mortal remains of the victims were immediatly cremated and the ashes in urns sent to the POW Camp Stalag Luft 3 at Sagan.
		Chapter III "Camp Stalag Luft 3 from April 1943 till to the 5th of June 1944" contains a description of the preparations for the escape, the escape itself and the first news at the camp about the shooting of the fugitives.
	free.polbox.pl /l/luftstal/luft3gb.htm (2204 words)

	Stalag Luft III - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Stalag Luft III (Stammlager Luft, or Permanent Camp for Airmen #3) was a German Army prisoner-of-war camp during World War II that housed captured air force personnel and was operated by the German Luftwaffe.
		The actor Peter Butterworth and the writer Talbot Rothwell were both inmates of Stalag Luft III - the two became friends and later worked together on the Carry On films.
		The writer Paul Brickhill was an inmate at Stalag Luft III.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Stalag_Luft_III (2159 words)

	Escape from Stalag Luft I :: The Patriot Files :: Dedicated to the preservation of military history (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Stalag Luft I turned out to be the best camp from which to try to escape.
		At Stalag Luft I there was a little fence (like a guardrail) about a foot or two high around the camp and about ten yards inside the double barbed wire perimeter fence.
		The Stalag Luft I Intelligence Officer recognized my V.P.I (Virginia Polytechnical Institute) Ring and said he went to VMI (Virginia Military Institute) for two years while I was at V.P.I. He also said he had worked for Hercules Powder Company at Brunswick, Georgia.
	www.patriotfiles.com /article.php?sid=503 (1505 words)

	Stalag Luft 3 South of Sagan
		Stalag Luft 3 was built next to an existing camp.
		Stalag Luft 3 was adjacent to Stalag VIII C. The bright red line indicates where tunnel "Harry" was built.
		Stalag Luft 3 was situated South of Zagan, where on the map is marked the word "[Formosa]".
	www.gps-practice-and-fun.com /stalag-luft-3.html (1181 words)

	WWII Stalag Luft & POW Camps of WW2
		Stalag Luft III held many fliers whose planes exploded in the air -- disintegrated -- yet one, two or more crew members survived.
		Dulag Luft, located near Frankfurt am Main, was the Luftwaffe Aircrew Interrogation Center to which all Allied airmen were delivered as soon as possible after their capture.
		The German garrison of Stalag Luft III was composed of non-flying Luftwaffe officers and enlisted personnel who were generally not qualified for frontline duty.
	dotstar.us /pow2/stalag3.htm (2639 words)

	Berga. Berga and Beyond. Prisioners of War. P.O.W. Camps \| PBS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		The treatment P.O.W.s received at their respective camps varied largely according to the German officers who administered them, as Nazis' Stalags and Luftstalags (also referred to as Stalag Lufts) were run by different divisions of the German military.
		Stalags, which held Army P.O.W.s, were run by the Wehrmacht, or German Army, while the Luftstalags were supervised by Germany's air force, the Luftwaffe.
		Stalag IX-B is often regarded as the worst of the camps that held American P.O.W.s.
	www.pbs.org /wnet/berga/beyond/camp.html (535 words)

	Trial of Max Wielen and 17 Others: The Stalag Luft III Case. Part I. Law-Reports of Trials of War Criminals. United ...
		15 were returned to Stalag Luft III and 50 were shot by the Gestapo and of the remaining 8, 4 were sent to a concentration camp, 3 were held by the Gestapo headquarters in Czechoslovakia, and of one, the witness had not heard anything at all.
		From there they were forwarded to Stalag Luft III with the explanation that these prisoners had been shot whilst attempting to escape.
		That the urns with the ashes of the dead officers should be collected at Breslau regional headquarters of the Kripo for onward transmission to Stalag Luft III for a military burial means only that they were sent through ordinary staff channels and does not reflect on Wielen.
	www.ess.uwe.ac.uk /WCC/wielen1.htm (6149 words)

	Ticket to Stalag Luft III
		Located 100 miles southeast of Berlin, Stalag Luft III was one of a handful of POW camps administered by the Luftwaffe for captured Allied airmen.
		Saltsman details the action in an account he types up while a POW in Stalag Luft III: “There was a number of aircraft diving out of the morning sun and as they came in front of us, they turned head on so we could see the yellow noses of the Fw-190s and Me-109s.
		When it first opened in April 1942, Stalag Luft III was comprised of two barracks compounds and housed only a few hundred Allied prisoners.
	www.ghspaulding.com /ticket_to_stalag_luft_iii.htm (4285 words)

	WWII Stalag Luft 3
		Stalag Luft III held many fliers whose planes exploded in the air -- disintegrated -- yet one, two or more crew members survived.
		Stalag Luft III was located 100 miles southeast of Berlin in what is now Poland.
		The German garrison of Stalag Luft III was composed of non-flying Luftwaffe officers and enlisted personnel who were generally not qualified for frontline duty.
	www.b24.net /pow/stalag3.htm (2631 words)

	Sam Hewitt 15th Air Force WWII POW
		There was some confusion as to whether he was at Stalag Luft IV or Stalag Luft III because the letters that Sam sent home bore the return address of Stalag Luft III.
		Stalag Luft IV was located about 17 to 20 miles from the Baltic Sea and Luft III was about 100 miles
		Stalag Luft III was mainly a Officers Camp.
	www.thehewitt.net /sam.html (16017 words)

	Luftlll (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Stalag Luft III was located at Sagan, Poland, a prisoner of war camp for air crew officers.
		He was the highest ranking officer at Stalag Luft III and became the SAO.
		The SAOs of Luft III and I were West Point officers and installed a strict military organization in the camp.
	mywebpage.netscape.com /carroldillon/luftIII.html (582 words)

	Luft IV (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Luft IV Stalag Luft IV Stalag Luft IV, a prisoner of war camp for noncommissioned officers in the Air Force, was located in Pomerania, twenty-eight miles south of the Baltic Sea, near the hamlet of Grosstychow.
		Airmen assigned to Stalag Luft IV were met at the Kiefheide railroad station by Hauptmann Leopold Pickhardt a brutal, sadistic captain of the guards.
		This was their introduction to Stalag Luft IV.
	mywebpage.netscape.com /carroldillon/luftIV.html (438 words)

	USAFA Stalag Luft III Home Page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		For the average World War II flier who ended up at Stalag Luft III -- the prison camp for downed airmen run by the Luftwaffe -- his last mission became the Longest Mission.
		While at Stalag Luft III, his mission continued unabated, but not his role.
		He met him behind the barbed wire at Stalag Luft III, on a forced-march in the dead of winter, or in the mare's nest of Stalag VIIA.
	www.usafa.af.mil /df/dflib/SL3/SL3.cfm?catname=Dean+of+Faculty (256 words)

	ESCAPE WAS THEIR PASTIME - New York Times
		''Stalag Luft III'' by Arthur A. Durand, a lecturer on military affairs who is on active duty in the Air Force, is a massive piece of scholarship that describes the day-to-day struggles of one set of World War II prisoners, mostly Americans, in a sprawling compound 90 miles from Berlin.
		The inmates of Stalag Luft III managed to keep themselves relatively healthy despite the fact that, especially later in the war, their captors were enduring privation themselves.
		But, of course, Stalag Luft III was no country club.
	query.nytimes.com /gst/fullpage.html?res=940DE5DA1E3FF932A2575AC0A96E948260 (505 words)

	Herbert Markle - Escapee of Stalag Luft I
		Stalag Luft III ID am not sure how long we were in that prison but I recently read in one of the books about POWs that we arrived at Stalag Luft III on the 28
		When we got to Stalag Luft III we were put in South Camp and we began the routine life of a POW.
		I thought the Germans were holding mail from her because I’d escaped from Stalag Luft I. I went to Florida where I was stationed before I went overseas and got a divorce.
	www.merkki.com /marklebert.htm (6341 words)

	Greatescape (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Stalag Luft III represented the sum of everything the Germans had learned about guarding POWs and foiling their escape attempts.
		In spite of the exhaustive escape precautions (and the relative level of comfort), it was from the North Compound of Stalag Luft III that the infamous Great Escape occurred in March of 1944.
		Brickhill, a British POW who served as one of the Stalag Luft III stooges, was supposed to have been among the escapees, but was disbarred at the last minute due to claustrophobia.
	pages.prodigy.net /tubbsy/Greatescape.html (2398 words)

	Amazon.com: Stalag Luft III: The Secret Story: Books: Arthur A. Durand (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Stalag Luft III is well known to fans of the movie "The Great Escape" as the German prison camp from which 76 Allied prisoners of war escaped in March 1944.
		The Commandant of Stalag Luft III appears to have been as sympathetic as he was portrayed in the movie.
		Stalag Luft 3, the camp, is where the actual "Great Escape" occurred, but that is only a small part of this book, which concentrates on detailing the POW experience from capture and interrogation to the war's end.
	www.amazon.com /Stalag-Luft-III-Secret-Story/dp/0807124435 (2817 words)

	STALAG LUFT III
		Stalag Luft III was a German prison camp for flying officers.
		Luft III was divided into five "compounds." East, the first, followed by Center, North, South and West, as the population of kriegies grew.
		It was clear by the end of December that the Soviets were likely to overrun Stalag Luft III soon.
	www.seniornet.org /ww2/gallery/memories/quentin/stalag.shtml (3144 words)

	Real Great Escape - Conditions
		Allied aircrew shot down during World War II were incarcerated after interrogation in Air Force Prisoner of War camps run by the Luftwaffe, called Stalag Luft, short for Stammlager Luft or Permanent Camps for Airmen.
		Stalag Luft III was situated in Sagan, 100 miles south-east of Berlin, now called Zagan, in Upper Silesia, Poland.
		After several major expansions, Luft III eventually grew to hold 10,000 PoWs; it had a size of 59 acres, with 5 miles of perimeter fencing.
	www.historyinfilm.com /escape/real1.htm (436 words)

	POW Camps
		Stalag Luft III - South Compound Ledgers: Maintained by 360th BS/303rd BG(H) Bombardier 2Lt Ewell Ross McCright, MIA on his 3rd combat mission, 23 January 1943 in B-17F #41-24567 Beats Me (360BS) PU-J, 1Lt Joseph E. Haas Crew (7 KIA 3 POW).
		Camp Description: In summer 1944, Stalag Luft 6 far away in the East was closed, not only because of complaints from the International Red Cross but also because of the Russian pressure against the Germans along the Russian front.
		Enlisted men were taken to Luft 4 near Grosstychow -- and for five weeks to the brand new Stalag Luft 6 in the west of German Reich at St. Wendel.
	www.303rdbg.com /pow-camps.html (4234 words)

	Trial of Max Wielen and 17 Others: The Stalag Luft III Case. Part II. Law-Reports of Trials of War Criminals. United ...
		Trial of Max Wielen and 17 Others: The Stalag Luft III Case.
		If, however, the accused, as in the Stalag Luft III case, had no such positive knowledge of the criminality of their action, they must be acquitted.
		The court pointed out that any violation of the law of nations in warfare is a punishable offence, so far as in general a penalty is attached to the deed.
	www.ess.uwe.ac.uk /WCC/wielen2.htm (3078 words)

	The Great Escape
		I was interrogated at length but treated fairly, with the exception of once being silenced by a blow to my head with a rifle butt having been unable to hide my amusement when some Gestapo interrogators appeared, dressed exactly as in the films, with long leather coats and wide brimmed hats.
		Stalag Luft III as photographed by an allied reconnaissance plane in March 1944, shortly after the Great Escape.
		At Stalag Luft III the sand was almost white whereas the surface of the camp was a
	www.ateal.co.uk /greatescape (5548 words)

	Stalag Luft III - Northstar Gallery
		Dulag Luft, located near Frankfurt, was the Luftwaffe Aircrew Interrogation Center to which all Allied airmen were delivered as soon as possible after their capture.
		At Stalag Luft III the men were able to construct a simple crystal radio and were able to monitor war news on the BBC.
		As the Russians advanced from the East the prisoners of Stalag Luft III were marshaled at the gate and then driven by their German captors on a 200 mile forced march to Mooseburg and then Nuremburg.
	northstargallery.com /Aircraft/B17/stalaglluft.htm (1865 words)

	The Great Escape : Rob Davis
		At Luft III, all lagergeld was pooled for communal purchases of what items were made available by the German administration.
		At Luft III arrived some of the finest escape artists in the Allied Air Forces.
		The prisoner-of-war camp used in the film was named Stalag Luft Nord and was built amongst pine forests near Munich in Bavaria, with interiors shot at local studios.
	www.elsham.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk /gt_esc/index.html (10348 words)

	Questions about Stalag Luft IV and IIIa
		Stalag Luft III was the Officer Camp at Sagan and was evacuated about the same time as SL IV.
		He said "In the lager at Stalag Luft IIIA" which is in the area he described marching to and, you're right, it wasn't a "Luft" camp.
		It sounds like S. Luft was closed by the time of the liberation but it is listed as the POW camp he was in even though he wasn't liberated fro there.
	www.armyairforces.com /forum/fb.asp?m=118926&go=last (2810 words)

	Simon & Schuster: The Great Escape from Stalag Luft III: The Full Story of How 76 Allied Officers Carried Out World War ...
		Dulag Luft, as it became known, was situated at the foot of the Taunus Mountains.
		In Dulag Luft, James was delighted to be reunited with the American-born rear gunner of his Wimpy, who told him two more of the crew were alive and well, but the other pilot and the navigator had died.
		Their destination was to be the newly built camp of Stalag Luft I near Barth on the bleak and cheerless coast of the Baltic, opened in the summer of 1940.
	www.simonsays.com /content/book.cfm?tab=31&pid=508729&agid=2 (8181 words)

	POWs - WWII Aces
		Stalag Luft III, in particular, was a model POW camp, and its "Kriegies" were humanely treated.
		STALAG LUFT ONE: The Men, Their Machines and Their Missions - stories of Marcus Kolb and several other bomber aircrew, a photo essay of 25+ actual photos from Stalag Luft I, several color photos of Barth today, and more.
		Stalag Luft IV - good map/sketch and overview of this enlisted airmen's POW camp.
	www.acepilots.com /pow.html (1037 words)

	Australians at War
		In March 1944, a mass break out from Stalag Luft III prison camp near Sagan, in Silesia, by Allied air force officers, caused huge disruption to the German war effort.
		Five former inmates of Stalag Luft III stand on the spot where it was estimated hut 105 was located.
		The memorial erected by Stalag Luft III inmates in memory of the 50 murdered officers.
	www.australiansatwar.com.au /stories/stories.asp?war=W2&id=184 (1613 words)

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