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British Lieutenant Anthony...

history · 10 May 1941 · 83 years ago

British Lieutenant Anthony "Peter" Allan escaped the Oflag IV-C prisoner of war camp at Colditz Castle, Germany by hiding in a straw mattress that was being carried out of the camp by cooperative French laborers. 

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