Bill Ash escaping activities. He ended the war as a flight lieutenant. In August 2015, the BBC reported: "When Ash died aged 96 last year his obituaries noted that he was said to have been the model for Virgil Hilts, the lean, leather-jacketed airman played by Steve McQueen in the 1963 film "The Great Escape"". The character Hilts, nicknamed "The Cooler King" because of the time he spends in the prison camp's punishment block (which the prisoners call the "cooler") for his persistent escape attempts, steals a motorbike and tries to escape to Switzerland but is caught while using it to jump
The Escape in the Silent of its plot." The German Film Lexicon regarded it as "a criminal drama, the powerful statement of which is weakened by formalistic deficiencies." The Escape in the Silent Flucht ins Schweigen (English-language title: "The Escape In The Silent") is an East German black-and-white film, directed by Siegfried Hartmann. It was released in 1966. Construction works carried out in a small village in Thuringia reveal the corpse of a member of the Waffen-SS, who seems to have been buried during the end of the Second World War - although no fighting took place in the area. Two forensics experts from the