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The canteen's "sealed" drain
cover.
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Escaping Colditz
4: May 1941
British prisoners bribed a German guard to turn a blind eye at the
eastern gate on an upcoming but unspecified night. The guard told his
superiors, and the Germans were there when a patch of turf suddenly rose up off
the grass terrace outside the British canteen, and Captain Pat Reid appeared.
He and his accomplices had slipped out of the canteen through a drain cover,
which the Germans had earlier cemented but the British had loosened before the
cement had dried. (For the German view of this attempt, see
The Jailor's Story)
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- First escape
April 12, 1941
- Straw mattresses
May 8, 1941
- Locked cells
Mid-May 1941
- Canteen tunnel
May 1941
- German woman
June 1941
- Air-raid shelter
June 1941
- Hacksaw
June 1941
- Over the wall
July 2, 1941
- Air shaft
July 28, 1941
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- Lavatory
July 31, 1941
- Manhole
Late summer, 1941
- Dummies
December 1941
- German officers
December 1941
- Main gate
January 6, 1942
- Town dump
March 1942
- Wooden crate
September 7, 1942
- Mussolini's office
September 9, 1942
- Headquarters building
October 15, 1942
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- Willi the electrician
December 1942
- "Maddest attempt"
May 11, 1943
- Franz Josef
September 2, 1943
- Cellar house
January 19, 1944
- Rubbish heap
May 2, 1944
- Greatest escaper
September 25, 1944
- Glider
April 1945
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