The Real 'Great Escape' ScandalThe camp commandant's own secret criminal enterprise.

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Hidden Sides of History

The film 'The Great Escape' tells a dramatic story, but it misses a crucial detail about the camp's commandant. While prisoners plotted their elaborate escape from Stalag Luft III, their German warden was busy running his own illegal scams. Historical records reveal his arrest wasn't for the mass breakout, but for a black market operation uncovered by the very same investigation. It was a parallel world of rule-breaking, from the top down.