Stalag Luft III
Sagan (Żagań), Germany (now Poland)
Run by the Luftwaffe for captured Allied air-force officers, Stalag Luft III opened near Sagan in Lower Silesia (now Żagań, Poland) in March 1942 and at its height held nearly 11,000 men — RAF, USAAF and other Allied aircrew. It is remembered above all for the “Great Escape” of 24/25 March 1944, when 76 prisoners got out through the tunnel “Harry”. All but three were recaptured, and on Hitler’s orders 50 of them were murdered by the Gestapo. The camp was evacuated westward on foot in the bitter winter of January 1945 as Soviet forces approached.
Sources: This page was compiled from publicly available historical sources, including Stalag Luft III — Wikipedia and Oliver Clutton-Brock, Footprints on the Sands of Time: RAF Bomber Command Prisoners of War in Germany 1939–1945. The text is original and has been written from factual source material.
Airmen held here
- Henry Birkland — Died in captivity
- Edward Gordon Brettell — Died in captivity
- Leslie George Bull — Died in captivity
- Roger Joyce Bushell — Died in captivity
- Michael James Casey — Died in captivity
- James Catanach — Died in captivity
- Arnold George Christensen — Died in captivity
- Dennis Herbert Cochran — Died in captivity
- Ian Cross — Died in captivity
- Brian Herbert Evans — Died in captivity
- William Jack Grisman — Died in captivity
- Alastair Donald Mackintosh Gunn — Died in captivity
- Albert Horace Hake — Died in captivity
- Charles Piers Hall — Died in captivity
- Anthony Ross Henzell Hayter — Died in captivity
- Edgar Spottiswoode Humphreys — Died in captivity
- Gordon Arthur Kidder — Died in captivity
- Reginald Victor Kierath — Died in captivity
- Thomas Gresham Kirby-green — Died in captivity
- Patrick Wilson Langford — Died in captivity
- Thomas Barker Leigh — Died in captivity
- James Leslie Robert Long — Died in captivity
- Romas Marcinkus — Died in captivity
- Clement Aldwyn Neville McGarr — Died in captivity
- George Edward McGill — Died in captivity
- Harold John Milford — Died in captivity
- Henri Albert Picard — Died in captivity
- Porokoru Patapu Pohe — Died in captivity
- Robert Campbell Stewart — Died in captivity
- John Gifford Stower — Died in captivity
- Denys Oliver Street — Died in captivity
- Cyril Douglas Swain — Died in captivity
- Robert Roland Stanford Tuck — Escaped
- Arnost Valenta — Died in captivity
- Gilbert William Walenn — Died in captivity
- James Chrystall Wernham — Died in captivity
- George William Wiley — Died in captivity
- John Edwin Ashley Williams — Died in captivity
- John Francis Williams — Died in captivity