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75th Anniversary ... The Great Escape 11:06 - Mar 25 with 1584 viewstheloneranger

A great film, but it doesn't really show what happened to the escapees.

50 of them were executed!!

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Allied_airmen_from_the_Great_Escape




https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-leeds-47572714

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75th Anniversary ... The Great Escape on 11:19 - Mar 25 with 1572 viewscontroversial_jack

No Americans involved either.
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75th Anniversary ... The Great Escape on 11:42 - Mar 25 with 1558 viewsGroo

I thought they showed a number being shot in a woods after capture, wasn't Richard Attenborough's character amongst those?

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75th Anniversary ... The Great Escape on 11:55 - Mar 25 with 1543 viewssherpajacob

I'm fairly certain the closing credits say something like

"this film is dedicated to the fifty"

edit

Took about 10 seconds to find on youtube, 1.11

[Post edited 25 Mar 2019 11:58]

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75th Anniversary ... The Great Escape on 16:25 - Mar 25 with 1472 viewstheloneranger

75th Anniversary ... The Great Escape on 11:55 - Mar 25 by sherpajacob

I'm fairly certain the closing credits say something like

"this film is dedicated to the fifty"

edit

Took about 10 seconds to find on youtube, 1.11

[Post edited 25 Mar 2019 11:58]


Many thanks SJ, I had forgotten that dedication at the end of the film.

To me it's still a tiny dedication about the 50 men who were murdered, when taken from the camp in very small groups by the Gestapo and shot.
To many people, the dedication the way it is written wouldn't have meant much. If those 50 had been American POW's ... You would have had all their names scrolling up on the screen.

You can tell the film was made by America, all the American POW airmen were removed from the camp when the tunnels were only half built, but they did keep watch on the early tunnelling.

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75th Anniversary ... The Great Escape on 16:49 - Mar 25 with 1462 viewsWatchman

There is a DVD release with an extra Docu disc that explains it all

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