The tunnel was to come up in the woods beyond the guard box, Stalag Luft III

In the cage at Bari, Italy

ART34781.021
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Place Europe: Germany
Accession Number ART34781.021
Collection type Art
Measurement sheet: 28.6 x 39.2; image: 22 x 29.4 cm (irreg.)
Object type Work on paper
Physical description pen and ink, brush and ink wash, pencil on paper
Maker Comber, Albert
Place made United Kingdom: England
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

Stalag Luft III in Sagan, Germany, showing buildings in the camp and the guard tower on a hill beyond. Stalag Luft III (Stammlager Luftwasse III) was a German prisoner of war camp in Sagan (Sagan bei Breslau), Germany (now part of Poland) where Comber and other officers were held 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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