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TIL that in the mass escape of POWs from the Stalag Luft III camp which inspired the film The Great Escape, only 3 prisoners made it to safety. The two Norwegians and a Dutch man made it to Sweden and England respectively. The remaining prisoners were swiftly recaptured.

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