80th anniversary of the 'Great Escape' from Nazi German POW camp marked in Poland

Eighty years ago the most daring escape of the Second World War from the Nazi maximum security prison camp: the Stalag Luft III of the 'great escape'.

In western Poland, it is commemorated that eighty years ago, dozens of prisoners of war tried to escape from a Nazi prison camp. Soldiers and relatives laid flowers and carried photos of pilots who participated in the outbreak, on which the movie classic The Great Escape (1963) is based. Dozens of soldiers fired their weapons into the air as a tribute to the prisoners of war at Camp Stalag Luft III. Four Polish Air Force F-16 fighter jets flew o…

The Great Escape: Service held in Poland to mark 80-year anniversary of WW2 prison break

Organisations across Britain and allied countries mark the anniversary of one of the Second World War’s most iconic moments

80th anniversary of the 'Great Escape' from Nazi German POW camp marked in Poland

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Observances have been held in Poland to mark the 80th anniversary of the “Great Escape,” an ingenious act of defiance during World War II in which 76 prisoners of war tunneled out of a German prisoner-of-war camp into a snowy forest. A solemn roll call of remembrance was held in the town where the former POW camp is now a museum. Soldiers belonging to Poland’s 11th Armored Cavalry Division as well as American troops station…

80th anniversary of the 'Great Escape' from Nazi German POW camp marked in Poland

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Observances have been held in Poland to mark the 80th anniversary of the “Great Escape,” an ingenious act of defiance during World War II in which 76 prisoners of war tunneled out of a German prisoner-of-war camp into a snowy forest. A solemn roll call of remembrance was held in the town where the former POW camp is now a museum. Soldiers belonging to Poland’s 11th Armored Cavalry Division as well as American troops station…

80th anniversary of the 'Great Escape' from Nazi German POW camp marked in Poland

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Observances have been held in Poland to mark the 80th anniversary of the “Great Escape,” an ingenious act of defiance during World War II in which 76 prisoners of war tunneled out of a German prisoner-of-war camp into a snowy forest. A solemn roll call of remembrance was held in the town where the former POW camp is now a museum. Soldiers belonging to Poland’s 11th Armored Cavalry Division as well as American troops station…