It created a nationwide stir in 1965 when several hundred formerprisoners of war from Stalag Luft III paid the expenses for four oftheir German ex-captors to attend a reunion in Dayton, Ohio.
Nazi Germany, after all, had murdered millions of POWs andcivilians in its 12 years of wholesale barbarism. Fifty Alliedinmates of Stalag Luft III, the great majority of them American andBritish officers, had been shot to death in 1944 on Adolf Hitler'sdirect order after the mass getaway dramatized in the 1963 movie "TheGreat Escape."
"We cannot help but give the German …
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