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The Lost Great Escape Tunnel Found

Teresa Neumann : Sep 12, 2011
Allan Hall - The Scotsman

"It is priceless to us and a time capsule of what life was like back then." -Marek Lazarz, museum director

(Zagan, Poland)—Remember the film classic, The Great Escape, with Steve McQueen, which told the story of the most infamous German prison camp in WWII?

Steve McQueenAs noted in a report in The Scotsman, archaeologists have now discovered a sealed tunnel which they think is the same one—named George—that the some of the Prisoners of War of Stalag Luft III tried to escape in.

Until now, the location of that tunnel has been a mystery.

"The finding of George brings to a close the mystery of where the tunnel exactly was," said the camp museum's director, Marek Lazarz. "And we now have to change the model in the camp museum, because the tunnel was on the opposite side of the theatre to where we thought it was.