Timeline Saturday 25 March 1944

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Saturday 25 March 1944

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Events on Saturday 25 March 1944 1

1944 The Great Escape Mass breakout from Stalag Luft III Seventy-six Allied airmen escaped through a tunnel named Harry from the German prisoner-of-war camp at Sagan. All but three were recaptured. On Hitler's orders, fifty of them were executed by the Gestapo.

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