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Photo gallery
Here is a selection of photos which were taken at Stalag Luft III, the scene of the Great Escape.
![PoWs watch a boxing match at Stalag Luft III prison camp.](/sites/default/files/styles/max_650x650/public/2021-08/boxing_match604.jpg)
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![British prisoners of war tend to their garden at Stalag Luft III.](/sites/default/files/styles/max_650x650/public/2021-08/garden_604.jpg)
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![General view of the huts and compound at Stalag Luft III prisoner of war camp.](/sites/default/files/styles/max_650x650/public/2021-08/viewofcompound_604.jpg)
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![An illustration depicting camp life at Stalag Luft III. Image is from the booklet 'The Great Escape Stalag Luft III - From the original drawings made by Ley Kenyon 1943'.](/sites/default/files/styles/max_650x650/public/2021-08/camplife_illustration_481_0.jpg)
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![The late RAF veteran Charles Clarke was a prisoner of war at Stalag Luft III during the time of The Great Escape.](/sites/default/files/styles/max_650x650/public/2021-08/charles_604.jpg)
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![Charles Clarke pictured with members of his crew.](/sites/default/files/styles/max_650x650/public/2021-08/charlescrew_560.jpg)
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![An illustration of a PoW digging in the tunnel. Image is from the booklet 'The Great Escape Stalag Luft III - From the original drawings made by Ley Kenyon 1943'.](/sites/default/files/styles/max_650x650/public/2021-08/digging_illustration_581.jpg)
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![Image is from the booklet 'The Great Escape Stalag Luft III - From the original drawings made by Ley Kenyon 1943'.](/sites/default/files/styles/max_650x650/public/2021-08/escapeplan_581.jpg)
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![Herr Narville, a member of the Protecting Power, speaks to Group Captain Massey, the senior British officer at Stalag Luft III prison camp.](/sites/default/files/styles/max_650x650/public/2021-08/everyday_life_camp604.jpg)
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![A photograph showing a hole made in the bottom of a door by a prisoner of war, in order to escape from solitary confinement at Stalag Luft III.](/sites/default/files/styles/max_650x650/public/2021-08/hole604.jpg)
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![The late RAF veteran Jack Lyon with fellow prisoners of war in a hut at Stalag Luft III.](/sites/default/files/styles/max_650x650/public/2021-08/jack_hut_604.jpg)
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![RAF veteran Jack Lyon was a prisoner of war at Stalag Luft III during the time of The Great Escape.](/sites/default/files/styles/max_650x650/public/2021-08/jack_lyon.jpg)
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![Stalag Luft III prisoner of war Jack Lyon with his squadron.](/sites/default/files/styles/max_650x650/public/2021-08/jack_squadron_560.jpg)
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![British prisoners of war produce news sheets in one of the huts at Stalag Luft III PoW camp.](/sites/default/files/styles/max_650x650/public/2021-08/news_sheets604.jpg)
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![klet 'The Great Escape Stalag Luft III - From the original drawings made by Ley Kenyon 1943'.](/sites/default/files/styles/max_650x650/public/2021-08/men_working_tunnels.jpg)
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![A group of German officers look at the entrance to a tunnel dug in a hut by Prisoners of War at Stalag Luft III.](/sites/default/files/styles/max_650x650/public/2021-08/officers_tunnel604.jpg)
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![An illustration depicting Stalag Luft III PoWs testing out the escape tunnel. The image is from the booklet 'The Great Escape Stalag Luft III - From the original drawings made by Ley Kenyon 1943'.](/sites/default/files/styles/max_650x650/public/2021-08/testing_escape_581_0.jpg)
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![One of the watch towers at Stalag Luft III.](/sites/default/files/styles/max_650x650/public/2021-08/watchtower604.jpg)
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![A pair of wire cutters made by Prisoners of War at Stalag Luft III are demonstrated for the camera.](/sites/default/files/styles/max_650x650/public/2021-08/wirecutters560_0.jpg)
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