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This is the amazing story of two Luftwaffe POWs who managed to escape from their camp in England and steal an RAF plane to fly to German-occupied Europe.
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Best laugh I've had all week! «Sorry gentleman you deserve better luck!» That is such an English line, it is deserving of Monty Python!
So the scene in the movie The Great Escape in which the two POWs stole a trainer plane to escape can be considered plausible although it did not happen.
Are there any interviews from these men or from anyone related to the story? That would be a good watch. Nice video Mark.
All credit to them for trying. They would probably have got away with it if they'd had a better plane. In one way it's a good job they were recaptured because at least they both survived. As many people here have said if they had managed to get away and return to Germany they would most likely have been shot down again and probably killed.
Such daring!
What the hell why not. What are they going to do shoot ya I'll bet the poles hated them
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This story would make a great Movie !!
Hey what about the german pows in Russia!?
A very nice use of model radio control aircraft.
How do you tell your commanding officer that you just lost two POWs and an airplane? This would make a great movie…
Great video Mark my dad was a German POW so l was rooting for these two but glad they turned back ,my dad was Wehrmacht soldier and first went to the states as POW when the Germans saw the industrial capacity of the US they knew they could never have prevailed.
It was right that Nazi regime failed ,shame so many ordinary people died .
Escapists irl
Thanks for the great story. On the other side, the Americans are not that fair like the British. Sir Alfred Hitchkock made a movie in which a German submarine POW was quite cute and managed to escape.´the US marine. The movie was made in the 1950. Since then Hitchkock was not allowed to enter the USA again -later he didn't want to either.
Got to do what you got to do.
My hemorrhoids are killing me today. Sorry, it’s hard to think of anything else to say.
Isn't funny that if it were two US airmen who escaped, they would have been shot on the spot by the SS.
Who is disliking these videos? Mark Felton has done seriously extensive research and much respect!
0:30 "The Great Escape" The doctor who gave birth to me was one of the tunnellers, but couldn't go in the breakout because he had a bad leg. Nigel Trask was his name.
Being up north, you really needed to steal a bomber to make it that far!!
Yeah, I guess escaping from Canada was a non-starter.
I have to ask – if their poor English necessitated that they masquerade as Dutch pilots, why did they have such obviously non-Dutch names on their forged ID documents ( at 6:31 – George David and Harry Graven ) ?
Pretty clever actually.
When we behaved like gentlemen. They did deserve better luck.
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It reminds me of the escape of a german pows from Central Canada hitched a ride to the Atlantic coast to Pointe de Maisonnette, NB in 1943 to await pick up by german u boats. Upon arrival they signaled the u boat from the beach only for the RCMP to show up. Arresting the pows and the RCN in pursuit of the u boats.
There was a group of Soviet POWs who attempted to escape from the German concentration camp located at Peenemunde (yes, THAT one) on a German He-111 plane. Considering the conditions in which the Soviet POWs were detained and the inevitable tortures and execution if they had been caught during preparations or the escape itself, the attempt was, in my view, by far more difficult, dangerous, skillful and daring – and yet nevertheless successful! The pilot's name was Mihail Devyataev. He initially was not treated well by the Soviet authorities upon his return – but, eventually, at the request of Korolev (yes, THAT one!) was awarded the Hero of the Soviet Union – for the escape and, possibly, for the following help with the Soviet missile program.
I'm Polish and give a like!
Man what an adventure. Fortune does favor the bold!
There's a really good old black and white film very similar to this called The one that got away.
GREAT VIDEO! LOVED IT! DO YOU KNOW THE REAL HISTORY OF WW2? PATTON SAID, "WE KILLED THE WRONG ENEMY" AND HE WAS RIGHT! AND THEY KILLED HIM 2 WEEKS AFTER SAYING THAT!
I can think of worst places to sit out the war than a stately home in the English Lake District.