Conflict
29 min
76 Men, One Tunnel, Three Spoons
Seventy-six men tunnelled out with spoons. Three made it. Fifty were murdered.
The most famous prison escape in history — and the massacre nobody remembers. 76 Allied officers tunnelled out of a Nazi POW camp using stolen bed boards, Klim tins, and 478 spoons. Three made it home. Fifty were murdered at roadsides. Then someone broke the urns open looking for gold.
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