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It was pretty well organised in that prison camp. We had all sorts of people and some of them put on concert parties. We had sports equipment from the Red Cross and things like that.
I joined the escape organisation. First of all, I tried to escape with my navigator, but we didn't get far, we got caught and then I joined the escape organisation. I worked with them and they had some very clever men running that. They had forged passports and all sorts of things to help and was only a junior then and my job was to help to help get people out of the camp and they did that by many ways.
There was one way, they would line up workers, see, the army chaps had to work, they'd line up at the two gates and the Germans would count them. The moment they moved off one chap would be waiting there, or two, they'd slip in with the ranks and go out. They got out quite a few that way.
Another way I was on, we had to go for our Red Cross parcels and that, on the outer perimeter between another fence and we'd push this wagon , the old wagons they had and one chap would have cutters for cutting the wire and we'd make out the thing had broken down and his job was to cut the wire and then two of the chaps who were dressed as Frenchmen, the workers, they'd quickly get out as the guards walked the opposite way and they got quite a lot of chaps that way
