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Nazi prison escape.

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Summary: The Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) presents the online supplement to the "NOVA" program "Nazi Prison Escape." The television program and the Web site highlight a series of escape attempts made during World War II at Colditz Castle, a Nazi war prison near Leipzig, Germany. Includes a timeline of events, transcripts from the broadcast, scanned images of original documents, maps, photographs, eyewitness interviews, and links to related websites.
Format: Book
Locale: Germany
Colditz
Other Authors/Editors: Public Broadcasting Service (U.S.)
Notes: World Wide Web resource

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Language: English
External Link: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/naziprison/

Keywords & Subjects

Subjects: World War, 1939-1945--Prisoners and prisons, German. Prisoner-of-war escapes--Germany--Colditz. Prisoners of war--Germany. Schloss Colditz (Colditz, Germany)

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