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...plan worked. Yeo-Thomas and his friends were given the identity cards of three Frenchmen who had died in the camp hospital. Yeo-Thomas was shipped to another camp, Gleina, as Maurice Chouquet. There he worked in the hospital, and watched his chance to escape. It came only when the whole camp was moved eastward, into Czechoslovakia, for extermination. On the way he bribed another Gestapo officer and, during a halt to bury some dead prisoners, led a mass flight across the fields to a nearby wood...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Alias Shelley | 2/2/1953 | See Source »

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