Poland ceremony to mark the Great Escape

British and other airmen have attended a military ceremony marking 70 years since the Great Escape of Allied officers from the Nazi prisoner camp near Zagan, in western Poland.

Poland ceremony to mark the Great Escape

British and other airmen have attended a military ceremony marking 70 years since the Great Escape of Allied officers from the Nazi prisoner camp near Zagan, in western Poland.

Marek Lazarz, director of the Stalag Luft III Museum, said the ceremony was held at the place where 76 prisoners of war emerged from a tunnel on March 24, 1944.

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