Stalag Luft III Williams, the book "Stolen Journey" by Philpot and the 1950 film "The Wooden Horse". There had been escape attempts (one of which inspired the film "The Wooden Horse") and many tunnels had been started and discovered before completion. In March 1943, Royal Air Force Squadron Leader Roger Bushell conceived a plan for a mass escape from the North Compound, which took place on the night of 24/25 March 1944. He was being held with the other British and Commonwealth airmen and he was in command of the Escape Committee that managed all escape opportunities from the north compound. Falling back
Stalag III-D Stalag III-D Stalag III-D was a World War II German Army prisoner-of-war camp located in Berlin. The camp was established on 14 August 1940 on the corner of Landweg and Osdorferstraße in Berlin-Lichterfelde. The commandant and camp administration offices ("Kommandantur") were later located at Belle-Alliance Straße 106-107, in Kreuzberg. With prisoners from Belgium, Great Britain, France, Yugoslavia, Soviet Union, Poland, USA, Italy and Czechoslovakia, the camp's maximum capacity was 58,000 men. Prisoners were mostly allocated to sub-camps ("Zweiglager") and work details ("Arbeitskommando") in and around the city. Their medical needs were provided by "Reserve Lazarett" ("Reserve Hospital") 119 at Neukölln