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i knew that what i had been ordered to do was wrong.

i said so , i was told to get on with it.

what else! could i do.

if i'm not done it, someone else would have done it.

that i have always expected to answer for this.

this deed i never wish to do.

And now, which is the end of the road.

immediately after the second world war.

The allies sort justice for crimes committed against them.

Britain persuade one war crime more than any other.

The investigator was Frankhmut kanor.

Ex-detective tundra ref policeman.

the crime was murdered.

the worst atrocity against the allied airmen of the entire world war.

the victims were 50 unarmed prisoners.

Shocking cold blood by gestapo after the great escaped.

The coldest part of the 30 years.

they were smell on the ground and,

the conditioned outside the brutal.

it was evident to us that Germans knew

that there was the tunnel being built.

they threats the boss several times that day.

And not find it.

the weather was getting worst.

and the things passes were old dated.

of course there we wasted.

and then drew of, a long time they have to do the more again

what we have visible nine months work

On the night of March 24, 1944

200 allied airmen packed it in hut 104

packed it in hut 104

in Nazi's German is most secure prisoner of the war camp in Sagan

near polish boarder.

they were said to take part in the most

ambitious prison breakout of the second world war.

became to be known as "the great escape"

and did happen because of one man

i'm like'n to hitting the name roger bushell

courageous, b'coz i'm he is one of the

"legendary escaper"

it has been out several times

been set there for a long time, he hadn't appear back

and i heard his name being spoken out of

somebody who might be killed

then i remembered the instinct motivational

and people said the roger bushell coming back

and there he was she put in-charge of escaping

when felt then the thing was in safe hands

here is a men with extreme abilities

and intelligence and above all single mindedness

whatever he did he put this whole effort in to it

His real objective was to achieve this

grand slam. is it were

the big tunnel.

Bushell harnessed the men power and skills of the camp.

600 men spending a year in digging,

forging documents and turning uniforms in civilians curves.

for the organization couldn't make, had be acquired

few German speaker became scroungers

bribing guards for whatever was needed.

one of them was Dennis Cockrum

fluent in German since it was eighteen

Tannus Fasilaldras then was Keith

then myself

then a young brother four years later

i think

we all knew without any doubt at all, he would be

whealing against the captivity he be like

cage a lion.

Dennis cockrum join the RAF 1940,

and been shot down over the channel

he has been the prisoner over the year

My mother suddenly died

have we didn't knew what to do about telling Dennis

we knew its be a terrible news

for him to have

in those circumstances, but of course

the time went on there was no option but to tell him

and his next letter came back country

and this is the worst day of my life

to news so obviously effected him by strife fully.

that i think would of strenght until resolve

even more so immediate needed it.

his letters than broad ways

i'll be home soon.

home was on the mind of many that night

Don Curbee Green Bushell's head of security

hadn't seen his wife and young son for more than two years

My Adote darling",

i'm thinking so much of you now

long so heart here

and feel so grateful for your love and tenderness

and so humble

soon i hope

i should be able to make the world paradise for you

and for collins

"I love you" darling.

what can i say

kisses to you, your Thomas

This my father's letter written on the day of the escape

now that letter is

shorter than the other b'coz he didn't have much time

but i don't think he probably could

find enough words really to say whole think he wanted to say

he did try.

He was

basically very very gentle person i think

He like cars, he like sailing

And he love my mother.

i mean he really did enormously.

And i think he love me.

i just know that i missed him.

And he was this kind of distance of hero

As we came in we relocated to

particular part of the hut

And order was sit down and

stay there until you were called

people actually remarkably

quiet i think considering what was about to happens

i owe the papers of Yugoslav wood worker,

my colleague gang with

jemcol sutaro eshkanzic Greek fighter pilot

he had goal set paper of Greek.

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