Another escape from the same camp and also not part of the movie was one where a prisoner died and before he was buried was substituted in the casket with a live prisoner and tools. He was able to dig himself out of the casket and escape.

Also from the the same camp and not in the movie was a group made themselves up as a guard detail. They had a problem making realistic looking rifles. They originally tried using shoe polish for metal but could not make them look enough like metal so they scraped the silver off of cigartte and gum wrappers and rubbed it into the wooden barrels.

When a detail camp into the camp and after waiting a while they marched right out the front gate. A short while later another group attempted the same thing but the guard looked at the pass and discovered that a recently added mark was missing. The guard’s comment was that he noticed that it was odd that two details should leave so close together and got suspicious–the real patrol was still in the camp!

At the time of liberation, they were working on another tunnel from the movie house.

Kolditz Castle was an SS camp was where some of the “Escape artists” from Stalag Luft 3 were sent after the “G Escape”. They put all of these guys together and wondered why they still escaped. There was also a long list of escapes from there as well and too numerous to list and many were also successful- one example is of small guys escaping under coat of big soldiers when going outside to exercise after a previous ghost escape. Noses were counted going out and noses were counted coming back in, but the little guy inder the coat was not counted.
Oh the ingeniuity of the American fighting man!!