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...Stalag-Luft III, a prisoner-of-war camp for Allied airmen in Silesia, was a good deal like all the others in 1943. The prisoners spent most of their waking hours planning escapes and digging tunnels; with the help of detection devices the camp guards found the tunnels and headed off the escapes almost every time.* But one spring day Prisoner John Clinton watched a sheet of newspaper hop the camp fence in a gust of wind and got an idea for an escape plan that worked...
When he found himself at Stalag Luff I in Germany, Greening was "sort of worn out from the going over the Gestapo gave me." There was nothing at all to do, and Greening discovered that "from inaction the guys were going around the bend. So after a while I tried to work up a craft committee, but still some of them stayed in their sacks all the time...
Crepe for Color. The Germans did not encourage art at Stalag Luff I. Greening had to be resourceful. "We used our own hair for paintbrushes," he recalls. "We baked twigs to make drawing charcoal. Coffee made dye. We boiled crepe paper and can labels to get color for paints...
...arranged with a printer to publish a book of his watercolors. By last week all 5,000 books had reached the subscribers, and there were already 1,000 requests for more. Colonel Greening's careful watercolors were not first-rate art, but for the graduating class of Stalag Luft I they made a historic yearbook. And to men who had survived air combat, his paintings rang true...
...knew who he was. He might be the Polish D.P. who was mysteriously missing from Frankfurt and who, police said, had done this sort of thing before. He might be a Nazi victim, a believer in swift and personal justice. One day last week, he struck at Stalag 13, near Nürnberg. A prisoner was suddenly racked by violent pains; during the next two days, over 2,000 others writhed in the same unexplained illness...