Extending the tunnel at the working face, Stalag Luft III

In the cage at Bari, Italy

ART34781.016
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Place Europe: Germany
Accession Number ART34781.016
Collection type Art
Measurement sheet: 28.8 x 39.2 cm; image: 20 x 28.6 cm (irreg.)
Object type Work on paper
Physical description pen and brush and ink, pencil on paper
Maker Comber, Albert
Place made United Kingdom: England, Greater London, London
Date made 1945
Conflict Second World War, 1939-1945
Copyright Item copyright: © Australian War Memorial
Creative Commons License This item is licensed under CC BY-NC
Description

Two prisoners of war digging the escape tunnel from the Stalag Luft III (Stammlager Luftwasse III) German prisoner of war camp in Sagan (Sagan bei Breslau), Germany (now part of Poland). The artist and other officers were held at this camp from September 1943 to January 1945. The prisoners planned their escape by digging tunnels, but of those who eventually got through and escaped about 50 were shot by the Gestapo after recapture.

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