After the Great Escape came the Great Betrayal. At 5am exactly 80 years ago, on March 25, 1944, German guards at the Stalag Luft III prisoner-of-war camp discovered the most audacious break-out of the conflict.Following almost a year of digging with makeshift tools, avoiding detection by microphones around the perimeter fence as well as the 'ferrets' or Nazi military intelligence in the camp, 76 officers had succeeded in escaping along a tunnel more than 100 yards long.It was an operation of unimaginable courage and resourcefulness, celebrated in one of the best-loved Hollywood films of all time — The Great Escape, starring Steve McQueen and Richard Attenborough.
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