The Great Escape — Poland
Allied POWs dig three tunnels — Tom, Dick, and Harry — to escape the supposedly escape-proof Stalag Luft III camp.
On the night of March 24-25, 1944, 76 men escaped through tunnel Harry before it was discovered. Of those, 73 were recaptured. On Hitler's direct order, 50 were shot by the Gestapo — a war crime for which 21 perpetrators were later executed.