<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_II" id="mwASY" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="World War II">World War II</a>: In an event later dramatized in the movie <i id="mwASc"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Great_Escape_(film)" id="mwASg" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="The Great Escape (film)">The Great Escape</a></i>, 76 <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allies_of_World_War_II" id="mwASk" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Allies of World War II">Allied</a> prisoners of war begin breaking out of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_prisoner-of-war_camps_in_World_War_II" id="mwASo" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="German prisoner-of-war camps in World War II">German camp</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stalag_Luft_III" id="mwASs" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Stalag Luft III">Stalag Luft III</a>.<sup about="#mwt268" class="mw-ref reference" data-mw='{"name":"ref","attrs":{},"body":{"id":"mw-reference-text-cite_note-51"}}' id="cite_ref-51" rel="dc:references" typeof="mw:Extension/ref"><a href="./March_24#cite_note-51" id="mwASw" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 51;"><span class="mw-reflink-text" id="mwAS0">[51]</span></a></sup><sup about="#mwt272" class="mw-ref reference" data-mw='{"name":"ref","attrs":{},"body":{"id":"mw-reference-text-cite_note-52"}}' id="cite_ref-52" rel="dc:references" typeof="mw:Extension/ref"><a href="./March_24#cite_note-52" id="mwAS4" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 52;"><span class="mw-reflink-text" id="mwAS8">[52]</span></a></sup><sup about="#mwt276" class="mw-ref reference" data-mw='{"name":"ref","attrs":{},"body":{"id":"mw-reference-text-cite_note-53"}}' id="cite_ref-53" rel="dc:references" typeof="mw:Extension/ref"><a href="./March_24#cite_note-53" id="mwATA" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 53;"><span class="mw-reflink-text" id="mwATE">[53]</span></a></sup>
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