The Making Of The Great Escape [Part 4 Of 4]

A Special Feature Off The DVD
Steve McQueen
James Garner
1963

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Entertainment

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• Making
• Of
• The
• Great
• Escape
• 1963

[kealyc]

To the Fifty

RIP

[longnoseeh]

awsome

[thatlemondude]

Who needs super powers to be heroes??? These men proved that. RIP the 50. You didnt deserve that fate.

[alanheath]

@cabeast No problem with correcting me. As I recall the prosecutor told me that it was deliberate policy to give British airmen priority to live. Thanks for sending the list!

[cabeast]

@alanheath i never said survivors i said shot ( as in killed )

i dont want to upset you but your wrong the survivors werent all british =)

i have sent you a private message with a website listing names ranks birthday etc so you can see for yourself, of cause this website may be wrong but i doubt it =)

[alanheath]

@cabeast In fact, all of the survivors were British.

[cabeast]

these are the 50 shot dead ( just so everybody knows who and where they came from ) 1 Lithuanian 1 Greek 1 Frenchman 1 Czechoslovak 1 Belgian 2 Norwegian 2 New Zealanders 3 South African 5 Australian 6 Polish 6 Canadian 21 British

[alanheath3]

Very interesting - thanks for posting. I was in Poznan on the day of the 50th anniversary but did not attend as the British Embassy or Consulate did not bother to inform me. Later I did meet the Polish state prosecutor dealing with crimes relating to Sagen - these were perpetrator against the Soviet POWs, many of which were murdered.

There is a very good museum at Zagan today on the site of the former camp.

[planstore]

I cant help feeling that if the 50 prisoners all had motorbikes and went for a silly joyride near the Swiss border, they might have escaped..... ;)

Rare to have a movie so true to the real story. Steve McQueen's bit seems to be the only "Hollywood" bit.

[noplacetohideo]

Fair play to the officers i really admire them and to those who were killed who should have lived but died defending comrades i salute them, they all deserve alot.

[joelSanFrancisco]

I saw this film when it first came out in 1963, just 18 yrs after the war. It made a lasting impression on me.

[jakethemistake19]

awesome, the murderers were found and executed/ imprisoned. great movie but I never knew what it did for the world not in just entertainment but to show justice, etc.