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Stalag Luft III (Stammlager Luft, or Permanent Camp for Airmen #3) was a German Air Force prisoner-of-war camp during World War II that housed captured air force personnel. It was near Sagan, now Żagań in Poland, 100 miles (160 km) southeast of Berlin. The site was selected because it would be difficult to escape by tunnelling, but it is best known for two famous prisoner escapes that took place there by tunnelling (see The Great Escape).

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The Great Escape

. The story was inspired by an actual escape from prison camp Stalag Luft III in 1944. While the film... manner as the inmates of Stalag Luft III. There were no Americans involved in the true story of the Great...

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