| The film was based on a Broadway play of the same name, written by Donald Bevan and Edmund Trzcinski, who drew on their personal experiences as prisoners of a stalag in Austria during the war. |
| Near Zutphen, Canadians soldiers came across a heartrending sight, Stalag VI C, a camp for prisoners captured on the Russian front. |
| Stalag 17, set in a Luftwaffe-run prison camp, starred William Holden as cynical, enterprising US airman Sefton. |
| He was taken prisoner after the Normandy landings and transported to the Stalag VIIIC PoW camp on the Polish border. |
| I was moved out of the Stalag Luft III prison camp late in 1943 before the escape took place. |
| In January 1945, Stalag Luft III was evacuated because of the Russian advance and the inmates were marched to a second camp from which they were liberated later that year. |
