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National Geographic - Great Escape The Final Secrets (2009)

For 60 years American intelligence steadfastly refused to declassify the work of unit known simply as MIS-X. At last its extraordinary story can be told. The program reveals how MIS-X trained US pilots to send back coded messages if captured by the Germans, how the unit disguised maps, compasses, radios and even guns inside humanitarian parcels. Every captured American soldier or airman knew it was his obligation to try and escape. “Great Escape The Final Secrets” shows how those men received enormous assistance from a group so secret that the US military ordered all records to be destroyed and its contribution erased from the pages of history. A single line in the Washington Post spoke of a flagpole being raised at Fort Hunt, Virginia to commemorate a unit from WWII whose role remained classified. That seemed hard to believe. What could possibly still be secret after 60 years? This documentary reveals the flag's hidden significance. At Fort Hunt a clandestine organization linked US Army intelligence to prisoners inside 32 German prisoner of war camps. Hidden messages smuggled inside humanitarian packages, cameras to create false ID's and cribbage boards with hidden shortwave radios that picked up the BBC were all sent into the camps. The broadcaster relayed top secret messages in its 1am bulletin. This is the unknown story behind the Great Escape.

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Snippet from Wikipedia: Stalag Luft III: Stalag Luft III (German: Stammlager Luft III; literally "Main Camp, Air, III"; SL III) was a Luftwaffe-run prisoner-of-war (POW) camp during the Second World War, which held captured Western Allied air force personnel.
The camp was established in March 1942 near the town of Sagan, Lower Silesia, in what was then Nazi Germany (now Żagań, Poland), 160 km (100 mi) south-east of Berlin. The site was selected because its sandy soil made it difficult for POWs to escape by tunnelling.
It is best known for two escape plots by Allied POWs. One was in 1943 and became the basis of a fictionalised film, The Wooden Horse (1950), based on a book by escapee Eric Williams. The second breakout – the so-called Great Escape – of March 1944, was conceived by Squadron Leader Roger Bushell of the Royal Air Force (RAF) and was authorised by the senior British officer at Stalag Luft III, Herbert Massey. A fictionalised version of the escape was depicted in the film The Great Escape (1963), which was based on a book by former prisoner Paul Brickhill. The camp was liberated by Soviet forces in January 1945. The site of the former POW camp is now the 'Stalag Luft III Prisoner Camp Museum'.

Camp life 1942–1944

The German military followed a practice whereby each branch of the military was responsible for the POWs of equivalent branches.

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