The Great Escape from Stalag Luft III The true story of one of the most heroic feats of World War II...the daring prison camp breakout that inspired the classic film "The Great Escape" Stalag Luft III was one of the Germans' "escape-proof" prison camps, specially built by Hermann Goring to hold Allied troops. But on March 24, 1944, in a courageous attempt by two hundred prisoners to break out through a series of tunnels, seventy-six A... Full description