Introduction: 600 prisoners of war dug a 110-meter-long tunnel in 1 year, and only discovered the tragedy when they escaped from prison, digging 3 meters less
In 1939, world war II broke out. Fascist forces headed by Germany began territorial expansion in countries around the world. After Nazi Germany launched a blitzkrieg, attacking the Netherlands and Luxembourg. The Anglo-French Maginot Line collapsed, and 400,000 Anglo-French troops were surrounded by German troops in Dunkirk, when the German leader Hitler stopped the attack on the Anglo-French coalition forces surrounded in Dunkirk for special reasons, giving the Coalition the opportunity to retreat, and 330,000 troops successfully withdrew to the British mainland. But then the Germans attacked western territories, and the whole of Europe fell more than a month later.
The Dunkirk evacuation took place, and although the Anglo-French forces were able to withdraw their troops, only 330,000 of the 400,000 troops were able to escape, and many were killed in battle, and 40,000 soldiers became prisoners of war. The Germans put prisoners of war in Rasht 3 in Poland, and some of the prisoners who were put in the camp were not willing to sit still, so they sought allies and planned to escape from Raft 3.
More than 600 people were gathered to escape from prison, and the German army was very strict in the care of the concentration camp. Hundreds of well-equipped German soldiers were stationed in the camp, and surveillance systems and shock monitoring devices were set up around the camp. This caused great difficulties for those who wanted to escape from prison, but the more than 600 people who escaped from prison were not discouraged, and took advantage of the German changing guard gap to analyze the surrounding environment of the concentration camp, found that there was a forest outside the camp, and finally decided to dig tunnels to escape.
After determining that the tunnel was dug to escape, they used the rest time, the German army was relaxing their surveillance, day and night with 1 year to dig a tunnel up to 110 meters long, just when they dug through, they planned to escape, did not expect to get to the exit of the tunnel, found that it was less than 3 meters to reach the forest, but there was no way but to run hard. Admittedly, they were spotted by German illuminators and shot at the fugitives, who eventually died under German guns.
Soon after the Germans were defeated, the other captured prisoners of war were rescued by their own country. And these fleeing prisoners of war became the ghosts of the wronged, so this tragedy tells you something.