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Escape Artists
The Nazis kept "escape-prone" prisoners at Germany's Colditz Castle. At least they tried to...
In one scheme, POWs made these crude German insignia pins by filling empty shoe polish tins with ground plaster from casts for broken limbs; pressing a "borrowed" pin (coated in butter) into the plaster; and pouring lead from melted toothpaste tubes into the mold. The POWs then sewed the pins onto fake German uniforms. |