Telegrams Referring to the mass escape

Telegrams Referring to the mass escape

Two telegrams with details of the escape from Stalag Luft III.

1944-04

Two typewritten sheets

This content is available under a CC BY-NC 4.0 International license (Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0). It has been published ‘as is’ and may contain inaccuracies or culturally inappropriate references that do not necessarily reflect the official policy or position of the University of Lincoln or the International Bomber Command Centre. For more information, visit https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ and https://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/omeka/legal.

SAnkersonR[Ser#-DoB]v10011-0003

Most Secret. 1.4.44.

Mr. Bonsall,
[underlined] Block F. [/underlined]

[underlined] AT 750 of 22.3.44. [/underlined]

[underlined] WARSAW CQ. [/underlined]

[inserted] (IN) [/inserted] In [sic] the night of ??.3.44 from P/W camp No. ??? of the Luft waffe in SAGAN British Flying Officers escaped 1/2 [sic] Apparently they had on over their uniforms overcoats smeared with sand and are pretending ot [sic] be French civilian workers. Probable direction of flight BERLIN and/or BRESLAU but it is also quite possible that they are making for the General Gouvernement [sic]. Please send out an alarm addrssed [sic] to Kripo and Grenzpolizeistellen: to be passed on to all.

From Sipo WARSAW.

N.B. See also AT 767 of 31.3.44.

[page break]

MOST SECRET

5 Apr 44.

Mr. Bonsall,
Room 71,
Block ‘F’,

[underlined] AT. No. 785 of 29.3.44. [/underlined]

To Kripo, WORMS, OFFENBACH, GIESSEN.

[inserted] (70) [/inserted] 70 British officers recaptured. Extraordinary state of search to be reduced to strengthened state of search (war-time). Search and guard over railways and borders to be continued in full force. Wehrmacht must continue search with adequate forces.

From Kripo DARMSTADT.

(Of. AT 774, 767. Refers to mass flight of 80 British flying officers from SAGAN).