75th Anniversary of 'The Great Escape' from Stalag Luft III, Zagan, Poland
Today is the 75th Anniversary of 'The Great Escape'
There was a BBC2 Documentary in the series 'Going Underground' broadcast on the 50th Anniversary of the Escape, 29th March 1994. This revisited the site and the local railway station with some of the survivors, retracing their steps.
I was present during the visit and filming as I was working in Warsaw at the time
The site is now a large developed tourist attraction - 25 years ago there was scarcely anything there or initiatives to commemorate this heroism.
One must reflect in 2019 on the exponential changes in Poland and knowledge of the history of the country since those far off days
This is my memory of the event in 1994 taken from my book
A Country in the Moon: Travels in Search of the Heart of Poland
As dusk fell and it being a Sunday, vodka drunks were oscillating to and fro into the path of the oncoming traffic. One I noticed in my mirrors fell over the parapet of a bridge into the river below. Two men stumbled out o…
There was a BBC2 Documentary in the series 'Going Underground' broadcast on the 50th Anniversary of the Escape, 29th March 1994. This revisited the site and the local railway station with some of the survivors, retracing their steps.
I was present during the visit and filming as I was working in Warsaw at the time
The site is now a large developed tourist attraction - 25 years ago there was scarcely anything there or initiatives to commemorate this heroism.
One must reflect in 2019 on the exponential changes in Poland and knowledge of the history of the country since those far off days
This is my memory of the event in 1994 taken from my book
A Country in the Moon: Travels in Search of the Heart of Poland
As dusk fell and it being a Sunday, vodka drunks were oscillating to and fro into the path of the oncoming traffic. One I noticed in my mirrors fell over the parapet of a bridge into the river below. Two men stumbled out o…
