The Long March began at Stalag Luft III, in what is now Zagan, Poland. Stalag Luft III was a prisoner-of-war camp built by the Luftwaffe in March 1942 to detain captured airmen who were part of the ...

In July 1940, Ron was hospitalised in France after shrapnel hit him in the back and head, denting his tin helmet. And after ...

Editor's Note: On the night of March 24-25, 1944, 76 Allied prisoners of Stalag Luft III, a German prison camp in Sagan, 100 miles southeast of Berlin, escaped through a tunnel named "Harry." ...

At the North Compound, I visited the Harry Tunnel Monument. This monument is a tribute to the Great Escape, which inspired the 1963 film “The Great Escape,” starring Steve McQueen, James Garner and ...

At 8 am at the War Office, the building opposite Horseguards, where the Household Cavalry stands vigil, a telegram marked ...

Moosburg and Stalag VIIA witnessed pivotal moments in WWII. This video takes you through the battlefields, bridges, and waterways as they were in 1945 and how they appear today. Tom Hanks ...

During World War II, some Commonwealth prisoners are trying to escape from a German prison camp. Because they are old and weak, the Germans decide to escape with them. Just after the Germans are ...

Tributes have been paid to a 102-year-old RAF veteran who survived "brutal interrogations" by the Nazis during World War Two. Former squadron leader Stanley Booker, from Christchurch in Dorset, died ...

Help find the family of WWII soldier Reginald Horace Attwood who are being sought by Ailsa Cullen who is in possession of documnents and short stories which he wrote while imprisoned at Stalag Luft ...

Mr Booker was also held by the Gestapo in Paris and later at Stalag Luft III. His daughter, Pat Vinycomb, who lives in Christchurch, said: "The German guards were so brutal to the prisoners ...