Outrageous BBC article calls Great Escape 'mad failure'
AN extraordinary BBC article has dubbed the Great Escape a "mad failure" and claimed that most British POWs wanted to STAY in the Nazi prison camp.
His appraisal is far removed from the way the audacious getaway was immortalised in the classic 1963 film The Great Escape starring Steve McQueen, which he described as "triumphalism". "Instead, it should largely be seen as a failure, a hubristic exercise that needlessly risked young lives, and had the very opposite effect to what was intended.
The Germans considered the purpose-built camp near the Polish town of Zagan as practically escape-proof.'Tom' was discovered by Germans and dynamited, but 'Harry' was ultimately used for the getaway on the night of March 24-25.Of those, only three managed to successfully escape, while 73 were captured.
Despite the losses, he described it as "one of the most successful escapes in the history of warfare" that "should be remembered now and by future generations".
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