The True Story of the Wooden Horse — the 3 Men Who Escaped Out of Stalag Luft III

👉 We're now live on Spotify. 🎧 Listen here: https://open.spotify.com/show/2wie10j... Every afternoon through the summer of 1943, British prisoners carried a wooden vaulting horse into the yard at Stalag Luft III, set it down in the same patch of sand near the wire, and took turns jumping over it for an hour. They kept this up for more than three months, and no guard in the towers ever thought it was anything more than exercise. Inside the horse, on most of those afternoons, there was a man. Under it ran a tunnel, a few feet longer every week. This is the story of the Wooden Horse, and the three men who dug their way out of a camp built to make tunnels impossible. Sources: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Woo... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oliver_... https://www.iwm.org.uk/history/second...