The Island Farm 1945 Breakout: Germany's Own Great Escape?

Names like Colditz and Stalag Luft III have been immortalised as brutal (and occasionally escapable) camps holding Allied prisoners of war. For captured Germans, though, it was Camp 198, or Island Farm, in Bridgend, Wales. Emma Slattery Williams explores the events of Germans' own Great Escape in 1945

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