[header] How to escape from an old style pow camp [title] Choose how to start escaping. [step] It needs to be as close to the wire or perimeter as possible, but be in a dormitory or area where the tunnelers can work 24/7, in relays, with lookouts and distractions. Another thing to remember is a cover. 
If this is a real pow camp, then the guards will search under furniture. What is needed, is an area that they won't search.