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20 articles are tagged with The Great Escape. (Note: A search of the full text of articles for The Great Escape finds 137388 articles)

  • 21 GERMAN WAR CRIMINALS TO HANG HAMBURG, Thursday. [ tagged as The Great Escape ]

    The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926-1954) Friday 30 January 1948, page 1
    News 123 words

    It is reported that the British official executioner, Albert Pierpont, has arrived in the British zone to assist in "operation pontoon" —the secret ...
  • SHOOTING OF AIR OFFICERS LONDON, Tuesday. [ tagged as The Great Escape ]

    The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926-1954) Thursday 25 May 1944, page 2
    News 257 words

    While insufficient evidence is at present available for a complete statement on the circumstances in which 47 a[?] officers ...
  • WAR CRIMINALS, HIGH AND LOW, WILL BE PURSUED LONDON, Thursday. [ tagged as The Great Escape ]

    The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926-1954) Saturday 15 July 1944, page 1
    News 490 words

    A fear that the Allies would again be cheated, as they were after the last war, in bringing German war criminals to justice, was expressed by Lord Vansittart in the House of Lords to-day, when he referred to the massacre of 50 R.A.F. officers at Stalag ...
  • GERMANY ADMITS SHOOTING OF WAR PRISONERS Escaping From Camps LONDON, Saturday. [ tagged as ]

    The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926-1954) Monday 24 July 1944, page 1
    News 233 words

    A large number of British prison ers of war had escaped from various camps in Germany and steps taken to lecapture them had been ...
  • NAZI SHOOTING OF ALLIED AIRMEN. [ tagged as The Great Escape ]

    The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926-1954) Tuesday 23 May 1944, page 2
    News 528 words

    DETAILS of the shooting by the Germans of 47 Allied ahmen, including four members of the R.A.A.F., after a mass escape from a Nazi prison camp will be eagerly awaited not only in this country but in Britain the British Dominions and in all Allied countries. The ...
  • ALLIED AIRMEN MASSACRED BY NAZI GUARDS LONDON, Tuesday. [ tagged as The Great Escape ]

    The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926-1954) Wednesday 24 May 1944, page 1
    News 262 words

    The massacre of 47 British prisoners of war by German guards in a prison camp did not occur in a clash between prisoners and the guards but was carried out by a group of guards who lost their heads and shot prisoners in barracks, courtyards and ...
  • GERMANS ADMIT SHOOTING OF WAR PRISONERS LONDON, Friday. [ tagged as The Great Escape ]

    The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926-1954) Saturday 24 June 1944, page 1
    News 402 words

    In a statement to the House of Commons the Foreign, Secretary (Mr. Anthony Eden) read the German explanation of the shooting of Allied ...
  • CANADA BELIEVES ALLIED AIRMEN WERE MURDERED Mr. Mackenzie King's Statement [ tagged as The Great Escape ]

    The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926-1954) Tuesday 27 June 1944, page 2
    News 255 words

    The Canadian Government is convinced that Canadian and Allied prisoners of war who were reponed killed while escaping from a German ...
  • FOUR AUSTRALIANS INCLUDED IN NAZI LIST OF DEATH VICTIMS NUREMBERG, Wednesday. [ tagged as The Great Escape ]

    The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926-1954) Thursday 28 February 1946, page 1
    News 362 words

    A German "death list," submitted to the War Crimes Tribunal, named four Australians and two New Zealanders among the 50 Allied airmen who were murdered after their escane in March, 1944, from Stalag Luft III. ...
  • MEMORIAL TO AIRMEN [ tagged as The Great Escape ]

    The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926-1954) Friday 16 June 1944, page 1
    News 36 words

    LONDON, Wednesday.—A memorial service for airmen escapees, who were shot at Stalag Luft III. prison camp, including three ...
  • SHOOTING OF R.A.F. OFFICERS LONDON, Wednesday. [ tagged as The Great Escape ]

    The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926-1954) Thursday 22 June 1944, page 4
    News 59 words

    The Secretary for Foreign Affairs (Mr. Eden) announced in the House of Commons that preliminary reports had been received from Germany in ...
  • HITLER ORDERED SHOOTING OF AIRMEN NUREMBERG, Thursday. [ tagged as The Great Escape ]

    The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926-1954) Friday 1 February 1946, page 1
    News 104 words

    Documents, relating to the murder of 50 British airmen, who were recaptured after escaping from Stalag Luft 33, on March 24, 1944, have ...
  • British Spy Tells Of Shooting of Officers by Nazis HAMBURG, Wednesday. [ tagged as The Great Escape ]

    The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926-1954) Thursday 10 July 1947, page 5
    News 125 words

    Colonel Scotland, a British officer who spent a good part of the war serving in the German Army on behalf of British Intelligence, said at ...
  • GERMAN P.O.W's. TO GIVE EVIDENCE ON SHOOTING OF AIRMEN LONDON, Wednesday. [ tagged as The Great Escape ]

    The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926-1954) Thursday 2 January 1947, page 2
    News 68 words

    According to Reuters, a number of German prisoners of war are being held in Britain in connection with the murder of R.A.F., Dominion and ...
  • N.Z. AIR OFFICER TELLS OF SHOOTING AT PRISON CAMP LONDON, Monday. [ tagged as The Great Escape ]

    The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926-1954) Wednesday 31 May 1944, page 1
    News 114 words

    Group Captain John Grocott, of New Zealand, who was in Stalagluft III at the time of the shooting of 47 Air Force officers, has made a long ...
  • DANGEROUS NAZI PRISONER MAKES ESCAPE LONDON, Monday. [ tagged as The Great Escape ]

    The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926-1954) Tuesday 14 May 1946, page 1
    News 53 words

    Erik Zacharias, 35, held as a war criminal, and described officially as a dangerous man, escaped from a detention camp at Middlesex. ...
  • NAZI LEADERS REFUSE TO SEE WIVES NUREMBERG. Friday. [ tagged as The Great Escape ]

    The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926-1954) Saturday 14 September 1946, page 1
    News 183 words

    Hess, von Neurath and von Papen, who. are among the 22 Nazi war leaders awaiting the decision of the War Crimes ...
  • AIRMEN'S ESCAPE BY TUNNEL FROM NAZI PRISON CAMP LONDON, Monday. [ tagged as The Great Escape ]

    The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926-1954) Tuesday 30 May 1944, page 1
    News 611 words

    The escape of 76 British and Allied airmen from tha Stalagluit prisoners of war camp at Sagon was made possible by the construction of a tunnel which took more than a year to complete. The Germans had long boasted that the camp was surrounded by ...
  • BRITISH P O W FREED AFTER FOUR YEARS Tells of Murder of R A F Men [ tagged as The Great Escape ]

    The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848-1954) Friday 6 April 1945, page 16
    News 381 words

    One of the first British prisoners taken by the Germans in this war has just been liberated by the 3rd Army. He is a 28-year-old Canadian, ...
  • ALLIED AIRMEN ORGANISED ESCAPE FROM GERMAN CAMP HAMBURG, Wednesday. [ tagged as The Great Escape ]

    The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926-1954) Thursday 3 July 1947, page 1
    News 109 words

    It was revealed at the Hamburg War Crimes Court that a complete escape organisation, with intelligence forging and disguise departments, ...


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