Helion, however, clung to the belief that `` in escaping from the Stalag I had also escaped from Abstraction ''.

In Jamaica, the Stalag version ( or Stalag riddim ) is a popular reggae rhythm, which came to prominence in the 1970s.

On 28 May 1941 Sinclair escaped from Fort VIII, Stalag XXI-D, along with comrades Gris Davies-Scourfield and fellow Wykehamist, Ronnie Littledale concealed in a modified handcart.

Preminger also acted in a few movies ; his most memorable role is that of the warden of a German POW camp in Stalag 17.

Subsequently most were held at Stalag XX-A at Toruń, around north-west of Warsaw.

Bram van der Stok, MBE ( 30 October 1915 – 8 February 1993 ), also referred to as Bob van der Stok, was the most decorated aviator in Dutch history, as well as one of the three men to escape to freedom in " the Great Escape " from German POW camp Stalag Luft III.

Around 200 of them were hanged there including Irma Grese, Josef Kramer and over a dozen of the perpetrators of the Stalag Luft III murders.

50 of them were executed by order of Hitler in the Stalag Luft III murders.

At Stettin the university-educated artist, who had studied German, was chosen to serve as interpreter and clerk in the office of the Stalag commander.

Clift lost out to William Holden ( who won for Stalag 17 ).

In Malbork one can also find a Commonwealth War Graves Commission cemetery with 240 graves, mostly of POWs who died in the area during both wars, especially in the World War II Stalag XX-B camp.

Schultz, who fought with him in World War 1 visits Stalag 13.

Almost all allied airmen who were shot down and captured spent some time at that camp before being moved to their permanent assigned " Stalag ".

After the escape of prisoners from Stalag Luft III in March 1944, for example, it was RSHA personnel who facilitated the " Stalag Luft III murders ".

Whilst at Stalag Luft III he met Talbot Rothwell, who later went on to write many of the Carry On films.

Wielen is significant in that he was directly implicated in the Stalag Luft III murders, in which members of the RAF who were involved in the " Great Escape " were killed.

The rest of the column proceeded to Marlag X-C, Westertimke, where they met the men they had left behind at Stalag II-B who had left on 18 February, reached Stalag X-B after an easy three day trip, and then moved on to adjacent Marlag X-C on April 16.

Peter Phillips, author of The German Great Escape, claims that 84 prisoners actually got out, thus eclipsing the 76 Allied POWs who broke out of Stalag Luft III, the inspiration for the film The Great Escape.

Her paternal grandfather Bill Humble was a test pilot who tested the Hawker Tempest and her maternal grandfather Stan Carter served as an officer in the RAF and after being shot down was held as a prisoner of war in Stalag Luft III at the time of " The Great Escape ".

The Germans were to eventually give up on this idea in 1943 after only being able to select ten suitable volunteers from the approximately 180 who joined Stalag XX A ( 301 ) in Germany.

Holden, who had won the 1953 Academy Award for Best Actor ( for the film Stalag 17 ) had been the best man at the March 4, 1952 wedding of Ronald Reagan and Nancy Reagan.

* In the movie Stalag 17, the American POW's sing part of the song to taunt their guard, Sgt.

Sympathetic to their plight ( and also aware that Luftwaffe POWs in allied hands could suffer reprisals if he did not intervene ) the German officer organized their transfer from Buchenwald to a legitimate prisoner of war camp i. e. Stalag Luft III in Poland.

Despite being an officers-only camp, it was referred to as a Stalag camp rather than Oflag ( Offizier Lager ) as the Luftwaffe had their own nomenclature.

* 27 December 1944 to April 1945 – POWs at Stalag VIII-B ( formerly Stalag VIII-D ) at Teschen began their forced march through Czechoslovakia, towards Dresden, then towards Stalag XIII-D at Nuremberg and finally on to Stalag VII-A at Moosburg in Bavaria.

Originally from the Newtownards area, they played their first gig at the West Winds Roadhouse in the same year, and regularly played around Bangor, Belfast and the Ards area for the next two years, occupying the same scene as the band Stalag 17.

The POWs were only in this camp for about a week ; when lagers A and B from Stalag Luft IV were taken out on their final march, this time east.

McQueen played the lead in the next big Sturges film, 1963's The Great Escape, which gave Hollywood's depiction of the otherwise true story of an historical mass escape from a World War II POW camp, Stalag Luft III.

The film depicts the true events of an escape attempt made by POWs in the German POW camp Stalag Luft III.

The somewhat fictionalised version of the true story is set in Stalag Luft III — the same POW camp where the real events depicted in the film The Great Escape took place — and involved Williams, Michael Codner and Oliver Philpot, all inmates of the camp.

During World War II, between 1941 and 1944, the Germans ran a prisoner-of-war camp ( Stalag 333 ) there for Soviet soldiers.

** 24 March-RAF and Dominion Air Force personnel are murdered by the Gestapo after the " great escape " from Stalag Luft III Prisoner of War Camp.

They were subjected to the same treatment and abuse as other Buchenwald prisoners until October 1944, when a change in policy saw the aviators dispatched to Stalag Luft III, a regular prisoner-of-war camp ( POW ) camp ; nevertheless, two airmen died at Buchenwald.

Conflict later set up its own Mortarhate Records label, which put out releases by other artists including Hagar the Womb, Icons of Filth, Lost Cherrees, The Apostles, Exitstance, Stalag 17, Admit You're Shit and Potential Threat.

Ninja Burger has also been referenced on other web comic sites, including All About Eda, Stalag 99, Sam and Fuzzy ( coincidental, according to the author ), Megatokyo, and Sluggy Freelance.

* Stalag — acronym for Stammlager, German prisoner-of-war camp for ranks other than officers.

Treatment was worse at Stalag II-B than at any other camp in Germany established for American POW before the Battle of the Bulge.

A year later they were removed to a Stalag in the harbor of Stettin.

He was captured by German troops in 1940 in Padoux, and he spent nine months as a prisoner of war — in Nancy and finally in Stalag 12D, Trier, where he wrote his first theatrical piece, Barionà, fils du tonnerre, a drama concerning Christmas.

* 1944 – World War II: In an event later dramatized in the movie The Great Escape, 76 prisoners begin breaking out of Stalag Luft III.

During World War II, the Germans used the chain of forts as POW camps, known collectively as Stalag XX-A.

** The " Great Escape " – 76 Royal Air Force prisoners escape by tunnel " Harry " from Stalag Luft III this night.

Catch-17 was rejected so as not to be confused with the World War II film Stalag 17, as was Catch-14, apparently because the publisher did not feel that 14 was a " funny number.

" Time also liked Holden's performance, describing it as his best since Stalag 17 ( a 1953 film that earned Holden an Oscar ), said Robert Ryan gave " the screen performance of his career " and concluded that " The Wild Bunch contains faults and mistakes " ( such as flashbacks " introduced with surprising clumsiness "), but " its accomplishments are more than sufficient to confirm that Peckinpah, along with Stanley Kubrick and Arthur Penn, belongs with the best of the newer generation of American film makers.

Many will remember him as Bull Ransom, the prison guard of Birdman of Alcatraz, and as the antagonistic and untrusting, yet dedicated POW, " Duke ", in Stalag 17.

He was imprisoned at Oflag IX-A / H near Spangenberg and in February 1941 moved to Stalag XX-A near Thorn in German-occupied western Poland.

In 1947, he won the Tony Award for his theatrical performance of Cyrano de Bergerac, and then in 1952, he won the Distinguished Dramatic Actor Award for The Shrike, and also the Outstanding Director Award for directing all three of The Shrike, The Fourposter, and Stalag 17.

His Broadway directing credits include The Shrike, Stalag 17, The Fourposter, Twentieth Century, Carmelina, My Three Angels, and The Andersonville Trial.

Colonel Malmstrom, shot down on his 58th combat fighter mission in World War II, became the US commander of Luftwaffe Stalag Luft 1 South Compound, at Barth, Germany.

During the war it was a site of camp for prisoners of Nazi Germany called Stalag II-C In April 1945, Oberst Rudolf Petershagen surrendered the city to the Red Army without a fight.

During World War II, a large prisoner-of-war camp Stalag II-A was located close to the town.

The setting was a fictional version of Luftwaffe Stalag 13 ( Camp 13 in early episodes ), a POW camp for captured Allied airmen located north of the town of Hammelburg in the Bad Kissingen woods.

Stalag 13 bore no resemblance to its real-life counterparts, Oflag XIII-B and Stalag XIII-C, which were prison camps for Allied ground troops.

It had rather more similarities to the real-life Stalag Luft III, which was the scene of a famous mass prisoner escape involving an elaborate tunnel system.

The presence of Colonel Hogan in a Stalag is likely historically inaccurate, since Stalags were only for enlisted personnel.