Peter Butterworth beyond the camp grounds. He was subsequently sent to Stalag Luft III, near Sagan, the scene of "The Great Escape". Whilst at Stalag Luft III he met Talbot Rothwell, who later went on to write many of the Carry On films in which Butterworth was to star. Rothwell and Butterworth formed a duet and sang in the camp shows, where booing and catcalls covered the sounds of an escape tunnel being dug by other prisoners. Butterworth was one of the vaulters covering for the escapers during the escape portrayed by the book and film "The Wooden Horse". Butterworth later auditioned
Stalag Luft III Stalag Luft III Stalag Luft III (; literally "Main Camp, Air, III"; SL III) was a "Luftwaffe"-run prisoner of war (POW) camp during World War II, which held captured Western Allied air force personnel. The "Stalag" was established in March 1942 in the German province of Lower Silesia near the town of Sagan (now Żagań, Poland), south-east of Berlin. The site was selected because its sandy soil made it difficult for POWs to escape by tunnelling. It is best known for two escape plots by Allied POWs. The camp was liberated by Soviet forces in January 1945. The German military