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World War II Prisoners Tunnels Discovered with GPR

Written by Randy Post

Thursday, 13 September 2007

Remember the 1963 movie "The Great Escape" starring Steve McQueen, James Gardner, and Charles Bronson about Allied prisoners planning a mass escape from a German POW Camp? Ok, me neither, but in the movie, the prisoners dug 3 tunnels to escape from the German POW camp Stalag Luft III in Zagan (formerly in East Germany, now in Poland). A recent archeology study used ground penetrading radar or GPR to uncover not 3 but over 100 different tunnels. Read more...

Archeologists from Keele University and University College London (UCL) used ground-penetrating radar and equipment to measure magnetic patterns in the soil to find the location of hut 122, containing the entrance shaft. Inside the tunnel was a lamp made from a cheese tin from a Red Cross parcel and a rubber stamp made from a boot heel, bearing a Wehrmacht eagle. Empty Red Cross milk cans had been used to make a basic ventilation system inside the tunnel. Read the full article.

I couldn't find any photos, but if I do, I'll post them or a link to them.

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