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Why The Nazi Camp Great Escape Actually Went Wrong
By prisoners of war face off with nasty nazis, heroic american soldiers, together with calm and calculated british officers plan to do the impossible, dig three tunnels named tom, dick and harry and get everyone out of the camp. It's a brilliant plan and the allied men are nothing but courageous. The nazis, well they're, nazis bullets fly, there's motorcycle mayhem and amazing stuff notes to men, steal an airplane and joyce lee fly over the german border. A hero fills your eyes with tears as he gets thrown into the cooler for yet another time.
It's a jolly good show by all involved, even though the backs of their heads become home to made in germany bullets the end. So there you go. That's the condensed version of the nineteen sixties. Hollywood hits the great escape. The brits are very british, the germans, it's so darned german and the main american prisoner played by steve mcqueen he's so cool.
He could walk through fire with a smile on his face, but there's a big, but when hollywood does are based on a true story, warm movie, you can count on the fact that nine times out of ten based part is very flexible, but the actual true story is amazing itself.
In fact, we like the real version. Much then the fictional version, it's all quite dark. Naturally, this was more brutal. Things happen, perhaps too brutal for the sensitive minds of you, regular movie, goers. The truth is bleak indeed, but the question is: did anyone actually escape and nineteen forty two when the style like aloof to three camp, got going just about all the prisoners? There were british and commonwealth officers, although so no more polish soldiers to the camp was in present day. Poland, then part of nazi germany come nineteen. Forty three, the north compound to the camp, was home to the brits that a bit later, the side and later the west side was filled with captured men from the us airforce.
Each different compound had fifteen hunch, the hunch or three by three point: seven meters with fifteen bunk beds in each when the camp was edited fullest. There were almost eleven thousand inmates around three quarters of them were from the us air force, with the rest being british, along with some other allies from commonwealth nations such as canada, australia and new zealand. As for building escape tunnels, this was actually very hard to do because the huts were raised off the ground. If anyone went below the huts, they were very easy to spot. On top of that, the soil was a sandy. So if the man was covered in the stuff, the germans would get very suspicious, very suspicious could mean a bullet to the brain.
Even if the guys could get the soil offer them work. Could they put the stuff where it wouldn't be seen the germans knew all of this, and so they believe there is no way these prisoners were going to escape. They were proud that they built an escape proof camp. They also knew that because the soil was so loose, even if someone did manage to dig down the tunnel would collapse likely killing or injuring anyone in it. As we said, those forward thinking, germans done a lot about possible escapes and that's why they had special microphones in the camp that would pick up any tunneling life in camp was not quite what you'd expect remember.
A lot of these prisoners were officers, and while each side in the war was tried to kill each other, there was a certain amount of respect between ended, especially when a man held a high rank. Life was certainly not all about torture and general barbarity, as you might have thought, especially if you've heard about the force of some of the other german few w camps.
The main reason for this hospitality was the german guards were mostly men fighting with the mighty german air force, but liftoff many honorable soldiers were part of the lift one foot, or at least they thought they were on it, as british copilot jimmy james would tell the bbc many years after the war, the camp staff were all members of the lift off and head for the most part in a civilized manner toward the prisoners in the early days, particularly, our relations with the germans were good, provided that higher authority and the nazi party were kept at a distance james to about one of the german commanders at the camp.
He was at first also run by the lift which was camps el agua, flowing there. He said a major bonds that chelsea one evening felt so sorry for the british prisoners that he sent them some crates of beer. James go the most humane and thoughtful man, but when the higher ups found out about launched to chelsea's kindness, he was relieved of his duties. James later became part of the escape team when he was sent. This dog lift three: the prisoners actually pretty well very well compared to the starved men in some camps that looked at day away from death. The prisoners got parcels from the red cross in from families back home, while the germans gave them a daily diet, constituting of almost two thousand calories.
Few w's could also burn in the camp as they were paid by the germans. You heard that right, what was called camp money was supposed to help prevent escape it used to keep currency that prisoners could use to buy goods and, on occasion, beer that was brewed by the germans believe it or not. The british government took money away from his officers, knowing that they were being paid. This was something said in an official report. Health, a few w's is good. Calisthenics are compulsory by order of the senior american officers.
Adequate medical care is provided by british and french doctors. Dental care there is not satisfactory, and difficulties experienced in a painting, glasses, washing and toilet facilities are adequate to. Although hot water is scarce, athletics were second only to reading as the most popular diversion camp areas were cleared and made sit playing fields at first for cricket and rugby and leader for softball touch football badminton, tennis and volleyball.
In addition to w's, took advantage of opportunities for ping pong wrestling weightlifting for his in parallel bar work hockey and swimming in the fire pool. Few w's were also able to study and actually get degrees they put on dramatic, shows based on plays that were popular in london. They even built their own theatre and the little radio station called station k. R g y, two newspapers they published.
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