Originally Posted By: Blibbleblabble
Is The Great Escape based on a true story? I think it's hilarious that the Nazi's had trouble with guys escaping from POW camps all over the place, so what do they do? They take all of the best escape artists from all of the POW camps, and put them together into one camp so they aren't a problem anymore. Like dozens of escape artists aren't going to work together to hatch some master plan of escape lol.


Yeah, it's based on a true story.

I guess the idea was to put the "worst of the worst" (or "best of the best" - depending on your viewpoint) into a maximum security prison (from which they were less likely to escape).

Kind of like Alcatraz.

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