As a fan of the well-known "Great Escape" movie and of the frolic that was "Hogan's Heroes", I found this documentary utterly fascinating. Some of the day-by-day actions on the TV were not as ridiculous as they seemed. Receiving coded messages scripted into British radio broadcasts. They did it...for real. Managing to get a message back to the MIS-X command about a military target unwittingly revealed by a camp guard. They did that, too.
In that case a guard bragged that he was being sent to an officers school, "You won't see me around here much longer."
The POWs got him to say how far was the school and in what direction from the nearest city. The guard was away from camp for a week or two but came back. The prisoner's quizzed him, "I thought you were gone for good?"
The guard informed them that the school had been bombed and thus he was sent back to the stalag to remain a Seargent. I was amazed at what MIS-X and the prisoners were able to accomplish.
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