I loved this movie and this story. It was an amazing accomplishment, and it
didn't hurt the my hometown fav James Garner played a key role in the film.
When I was in MBA school at the University of Oklahoma, we had a very
progressive management professor who used movies for teaching and tests in
his Group Dynamics course. Our mid-term was to analyze the results of
management styles in the Great Escape. (Our final was doing the same for 12
O'clock High.)
During the prep for our mid-term the professor brought in a local vet from
Oklahoma City, who was a prisoner at the Stalag and part of the team that
built the tunnels. It was fantastic to hear the stories.
Regards
DBT
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From: MoPo List [mailto:mopo-l@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU] On Behalf Of Bruce
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Sent: Thursday, November 24, 2011 9:18 AM
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Subject: [MOPO] The real The Great Escape!
One of my absolute favorite movies, The Great Escape, was based on a true
story (a few American characters were added, but otherwise the story was
very accurate, telling of the three escape tunnels in a WWII POW camp). Now
it turns out that there was also a FOURTH tunnel that the Germans never
found, and it has been located and it was filled with artifacts, and a TV
show Digging The Great Escape will be aired!
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2063652/The-classic-Steve-McQueen-mo
vie-immortalised-tunnels-Stalag-Luft-III-PoW-camp--astonished-archaeologists
-discovered-fourth.html?ITO=1490
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