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One of the last survivors of the Great Escape 'who was spared from the firing squad by Hitler' dies, aged 92


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One of the last survivors of the Great Escape 'who was spared from the firing squad by Hitler' dies, aged 92

One of the three remaining survivors of the Great Escape has died at the age of 92.

Les

Brodrick was among 76 men who managed to tunnel out of a Second World

War prison camp beneath the feet of their German captors.

Mr

Brodrick, an RAF flight lieutenant, and 72 others were recaptured.

Fifty of them were executed on Hitler’s orders but he survived.

 

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