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14 German Criminal Police Bulletin (special edition) Published by the Reichskriminalpolizeiamt in Berlin Published daily with the cancellation of Sundays and public holidays.To be obtained by the Berlin office C2, Werderscher Markt 5 16th year Berlin, 5th May 1943 No. 4575 b Only intended for German authorities! I Messages for the investigation of war. Subject: Fludhtfall Alt-Burgundy. (On special expenditures DtkPBl No 4527a of p. 3, No 452Sa of 9. 3., No4529a of 10. 3. No 4530a of 1f. 3 and No 4533a of 15. 3. and No 456fa of 16. 4. 43.) I. partly by dyeing had given a civil-like appearance, In the night of 6. 3. 43 are from the Oflag old-Bur- partly with wool sweaters and self-made hats. Hohensalza, 39 British and American wore civilian shirts and tie. Airmen and 4 British sergeants escaped. The prisoners have their escape targets alone or in pairs The prisoners had sought to reach a 30 m in several months' work. Like the fixed-named Steadal, Wuppertal long and to the depth of 5 m falling tunnels built. and Kufstein (Tirol) showed some fugitives to have gone to This began in the day latrine and led to a field, west and south-west. The majority had covered the descent through the ditch of a potato rent to escape to Sweden or Denmark. Among the pilot officers were numerous several prisoners in German and Swedish engineers and technicians, so that the Stollenbau technically single or in German or Polish writings were carried out wall-free and a recognition of the entry point over-posts found, which they crew members of Swedish made difficult. Facing the Polish-speaking population The preparations for the escape apparently came under the direction of the wanted, in which against high reward for refugees participated in the escape and retaken camp elders, was asked support. Lieutenant colonel D a y, stood; for the escape were the doch- While a part of the fugitives were first determined in the closest pilots, which almost invariably hid already or further surroundings of the camp, others had so many escape attempts behind them. The first prisoners of war had already left the camp on the 5th of March at 4 o'clock in the morning in Bromberg a ticket to Berlin. The fugitives were reached with high-quality and one train. By way of derogation from the taken captain St e v ens had already on 6th of 3rd at the first military assumption. Foods such as chocolate and vitamin tablets, provided with substantial money, maps and fake papers. II. These papers were once written 1) The military escape report reached the head of the companies and authorities, who according to templates (indications in criminal police station Hohensalza on 6 March 43 at 10.20 a.m. Illustrated newspapers and prisoners handed over This triggered for the part of his KPStelle district, which according to writing had been produced with ink in excellent execution previous experiences in the first place as an escape direction in question, on the other hand came out for fake ID cards, police investigation Beta and issued Blitz-FS. with the request workers, which the fugitives at times T. In matt cellophane shells, they carried themselves to the criminal and state police posts for co-examination. Depending on their language skills, they spent themselves as Poznan, Litzmannstadt, Schröttersburg, Zichenau, Graudenzi German or foreign civilian workers. Several of the Bromberg, Gdansk, Königsberg i. Pr., Schneidemühl, Frankfurt had refugees from long stays in the empire of O. O. u. Stettin and the Kdr. d. SeichPol. and d. SD in Warsaw. Peacetimes good German language and local knowledge, in view of the possibility that the prisoners — as in which they had also taught other prisoners of war. earlier cases — in the north direction, in order to cover the fugitives were largely to reach the Baltic coast with blue-grey, the head of the KPStelle ordered English pilot uniforms, to which they also ordered the search stage Beta by reworking and Bromberg in his district