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Great Escape

In this episode, our three participants learn how their ancestors were involved in an audacious plan to free prisoners of war from a Nazi camp. Tanya Millard's ancestor is Squadron Leader Roger Bushell, known as Big X, who proposed one of the most daring escape plans of any war. His aim was to save 200 prisoners of war from a Nazi camp in Eastern Germany. Bushell worked with Ley Kenyon, who played a crucial role in the plan by using his artistic skills to create forgeries of German documents. Rebecca Goodchild is Ley Kenyon's great-niece. Gill Owen's uncle, Dennis Cochran, was one of the prisoners who tried to escape from the camp. Both Gill and Tanya will learn how their relatives paid the ultimate price for escaping in March 1944 and how their story inspired a book and Hollywood film.

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  • Runtime 60 minutes
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