Escapes Created By The Pows In The Film, The Great Escape

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The Great Escape is a WWII movie which follows the story of recaptured British Commonwealth soldiers who were taken as prisoners of war (POWs) and sent to a high-security German POW camp to prevent them from escaping again. The movie revolves around the attempted escapes created by the POWs at the POW camp called Stalag Luft III. The series of attempted escapes are organized by Robert Bartlett a British Airforce Squadron Leader who was given the code name “The Big X”. Bartlett’s plan was to free 250 prisoners through tunnels calling it the greatest escape because the prison held POW escape artists. To complete this escape Bartlett and other prisoners were given tasks to collect the resources needed to execute the escape. Each person was given