'He was the war's greatest escape artist. His feet never stopped itching' – Great Escape hero remembered by Mike Lockley
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He was the Harry Houdini of Hitler’s prison camps, a man who the Third Reich simply couldn’t keep behind barbed wire.
In all, the remarkable PoW who possessed a racing pigeon’s desire to return home gave the slip, or attempted to give the slip, to his Nazi guards 13 times.