The Incredible Story of How 70 German Soldiers Escaped a Welsh POW Camp | Forces TV
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- Опубликовано: 11 сен 2024
- It's been called 'The Welsh Great Escape'. In March 1945, 70 Germans tunneled to freedom from a prisoner of war camp in Bridgend. Every year the site of their escape is opened up to the public.
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Thanks for keeping History alive , Never heard of this before , Greetings from Germany .
It's also in a beautiful part of the world, the Vale of Glamorgan and Ogmore Vale. In fact in the village where I lived about 10 km from the camp, there was a former POW luftwaffe pilot from that same camp who remained in the area. He got to know a local girl, married her and lived out his life in this little Welsh village on the coast. He was a lovely chap.
I dont like far from that place I would go down there 30 tears ago, very errie place it was.
Gotta hand it to the Germans. They're stubborn and they're smart..
Marvin Cooper Much more difficult from an island. Allied escapees had overland access to neutral countries.
And brave
The Great Escape! But made by Germans.
Can see these Germans must of heard of the allied Great Escape from Stalag Luft III. Also the 70 Germans who escaped, they were only six men short of matching the same amount who escaped from the Great Escape
This is island farm just around the corner from where I live.
Hey me too, well I USED to live in Bowham Avenue. Don't any more...
I visited the camp back in the mid 80's when loads of buildings were up. There was stacks of wall art and I've got photos of some of it including a great castle. Has the drawing of the nude lady in the hut where the actual tunnel was dug been preserved? According to After the Battle magazine this was used to distract guards from the tunnel workings.
Those crafty krauts!!!!
I suggest going to Eden camp you can go into every hut and they all have displays on different things from the war
I grew up literally across the road from here and have been inside! I don't live there any more.
This is a new storey to me. Tenacious Germans really wanted to get home.
Did they slap their bunk twice before they went into the tunnel.
Paul Brickhill stole this story for The Great Escape.
I have a great deal of respect for our German friends but what was their plan once they broke out, swim the channel?
Good point. Some German POW's escaped here in Arizona and found out the river on their map was no longer there.
Ahahaahahhaahahhan SO simple my great grandfather escaped the germans through a orchard!
The hardliners were transferred to Carburton Camp, Welbeck, Nottinghamshire where Henry Faulk, the Camp System's leading de-Nazification expert was building up his scheme. See 'Convicted for Courage' by Kevan Pooler
And Canada. The only POW to escape and get back home, through neutral USA. A luftwaffe pilot. He died a year after his return. It's immortalised in the movie 'the one the got away' Hardy Kruger. The book is better.
@@gunner678 good film that was.
Hi from Sweden
My uncle Ben Samuel was a doctor here. He was Jewish,but treated them. Well of course
Esta loura como se atreve a fazer um video para as das coisas dela;mesmo que tenha tido um óptimo fim de semana;aqui ainda não está muito calor,mas dizem que a proxima semana vai começar o calor,40 graus .Esta se calhar já não quer saber o que acontece no seu pais,era uma rainha muito teimosa,ouve os ministros e depois decide o que vai fazer e que algumas vezes faz o que lhe parece melhor para os outros.
1 German sympathiser
Germans are always one step ahead of the Brits
What? Stop being an ignorant racist!!!
You clearly don't know what "race" means.
The were also German pows in the soviet union -SIBERIA i can tell you ALL of them wanted to escape and return home - over a Million of them died in captivity - or are still missing, The german POWs in USA - Canada - England were treated far better .
Were they when we bombed their dams with the bouncing bomb?
@Marvin Cooper Busy shooting down rockets with meteors.
Who's here after that one infrographics video of this?
what video
fyre da Just a video about a toilet escape
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