Guy Martin learns about the REAL Great Escape | Guy Martin Proper 

Hard to find a man who is so well known around the world and is a champion, yet so humble and down to earth. You're a legend Guy!

My father (R I P) was in Stalag Luft 3 at the time of the escape but not on the escape wing. They knew something was going on but didnt know what. After the end of the war they were given large prints of drawings made by one of the "inmates" at the time, now in my nephews possession. Later on as the germans retreated he was on "The long march" where if you didnt keep up (and many couldnt) they were shot, luckily for me he made it back.

The Colditz method was the best way I reckon. Hide two blokes inside the camp somewhere, and bring em food and water for say a week. The guards think they have escaped so after the week is up you swap them for another two blokes (Because hiding in a hole or tiny space for a week is all anyone could stand) and continue until they assume the men have gotten away . THEN you have two bloke actually escape and bring the two out of hiding so the count of men in there stays the same. Those two blokes will be able to escape easier as there won't be any alarms raised.

Wow just wow. You know this video is getting mad respect. Been up for almost three hours. Only 2 dislikes neither are mine and only 16 comments. I learned so much about this subject in the 14 minute video then I have in watching hours of other videos. Like I would have never known that it was a normal thing for ppl to be walking down that path in the middle of the night and so many other lil details. And as much as I hate to say this. But mad respect to that one German soldier ( not calling him a nazi cuz of what he did and how he felt about it he was only doing what he was told to stay alive himself ) who paid out of his pocket for that Memorial. And as for Guy you can tell of humble of a person he is by how much he didn't say.....

Ex girlfriend of mine was the great niece of one of the 50. Flight Lieutenant Patrick Langford. C/1631. Prisoner No. 710. He was the "trapfuehrer" responsible for ensuring that the stove on its tiled piece of removable flooring was back in place over the tunnel whenever the guards were nearby.

Love how the date on the memorial is still unfinished “1939-194”

Full respect to you Guy martin I tip my hat to you sir. Rest in peace and thank you so much for are freedom, to all the men and women who gave everything for us.

Bram (bob) van der stok is my great uncle, I didn’t know he was the most decorated pilot in the Netherlands that’s really cool!

6:40 i tought smash mouths all star is gonna play

What a story and what a commitment. Rest in piece soldiers.

Brilliant recount of true heroes.

One of my fav films. V interesting. Guy, if you ever stop racing for whatever reason. You MUST become the new Fred dibnah, you have the passion for engineering and love learning new things. Your very likeable and easy to watch working. One cool fella 😎

My father was in the north compound. He was a "penguin." He was among the next five to go down the hole when the tunnel was discovered and had to burn his forged papers before the guards came into the hut. One of his best friends was among the 50 who were executed.

What a legend. Love Guy.

Great video, I became a fan of yours due to your racing. The more I learn about you the more impressed I am. I watch you climb Pikes Peak at a record speed. Your Isle of Man runs absolutely phenomenal. As a IBA rider you inspire me all the way. But as a man you are such a credit to the sport. It's videos like this that really show the good side of you. I've learned a lot of little things from You. Thank you. For being you. We need more people like you in the world.

Tony & susan here, Thank you , vary powerful video. Semper Fi Guy

Such a lot of information about the escape that couldn't be included in the film. We saw the sanitised version and it's seeing clips like this that fill in many blanks. Fascinating, informative and, ultimately tragic.

The irony is coming in a VW van 😂🤣

Nice video and good story. I had not heard the complete story though. I visited Stalag Luf 3 back in Sept 2016. I looked for this memorial and could not find it.

Love the content you post guy! #LEGEND

We will remember them! We Will Remember Them!!!

Guy is the man!!!!

Love his hunger for knowledge

Hopefully passing the place this June on my way to Tallin

Guy you are a real man of substance,emotions,true respect and without ego,that is why we like you as a National treasure,there are few of you around who we can relate to just like Fred Dibnah was,the presentation in this video was excellent and for those who made it escaping truly remarkable,as for the murders it brings home the fight against tyranny with evil dictators in this world.

What a man!!!!!!

0:53 me when i hear a new apple product in 2040

That was real brother thx,, awesome,,,,,,,,,,

You can tell a smart bloke by how much he listens and how little is said, top bloke Guy.. I'd much rather old mate refer to the killers back then as Nazi Soldiers than Germans too, that stain on history isn't Germany's fault

Top just top 👍🇳🇿

My primary school headteacher was a grandson of one of the three men that escaped.

There was also another completed tunnel called Margaret, but was never used. Can't find any details of it other than in "Escape from Germany" by Aidan Crawley. Anyone got any information on it?

In a fine example of German culture and civilization many of the escapees were shot after being recaptured.

Where can I watch the whole thing

That’s crazy... I was literally there 2 days ago

6:41 thought Smash Mouth was about to start playing 😂

Ultimately, of the 72 men indicted for the killing or conspiracy to kill, 21 were executed, 17 were imprisoned, 11 committed suicide, seven were untraced of whom four were presumed dead, six were killed in wartime, five were arrested but for political reasons the charge was not proceeded with, one was arrested and not prosecuted but used as a material witness, three were acquitted or the sentence was quashed on review, one remained free in East Germany until his death. Here’s [shows image] the nationalities of the 50 murdered men. Obviously right across the Dominions, French, Greek, all the Allied forces in a sense, outside I suppose you can say the Americas, are virtually represented there. The ultimate fate of those responsible for and involved in this war crime, obviously, Hitler, Himmler, Göring all committed suicide. Keitel, who was very much involved in it, one of the charges laid against him and Göring at Nuremburg, if you ever see the recordings, they ask them, what do you know about the murder of the 50 Allied airmen. Keitel was hung after the Nuremberg War Trials. Gestapo chief Heinrich Müller is alleged to have died during the battle for Berlin in April 1945, but there are numerous theories about what his ultimate fate was, did he get away, did the Americans capture him, did he land up in Switzerland, no one quite knows what happened to him. Of the Breslau perpetrators the two principals, Dr Scharpwinkel and Lux. It’s alleged that a force known as ‘Unit Scarpwinkel’ and led by him was formed for the defence of Bresalu. It was made up of Gestapo, Kripo and an organisation called SiPo, [Sicherheitspolizei] which is when the two of them combine. After the capitulation of Breslau, Russian officers acting upon information, arrested a wounded German officer in a hostel masquerading as a Lieutenant Hagamann, it was in fact Scharpwinkel. He was twice interrogated by the British officer, Captain Cornish in Moscow, in August and September 1946. Although there were several Foreign Office requests asking for his extradition from Russia, his ultimate fate is unknown. Scharpwinkel is reported dead by the Russians on 17 October 1947. However, he may have been give some position suited to his temperament in the Soviet Security Services administration. It’s alleged that Lux who led the actual execution squad from Breslau died in the fighting in and around that city, where as a member Scharpwinkel’s detachment.

Lest we forget 🇦🇺

Guy loves repeating those big numbers ......Fourteen Thousand ..... Bloody hell... FOURTEEN THOUSAND... FOURTEEN.....

Love movie on you tube what happened to the buildings

0:12 'What a boi'

Brilliant, even though only three made it, whilst the others were killed by the Gestapo (there is an amazing documentry about a RAF military Police officer who made it his work to track down those surviving who 'signed' the orders for their shootings) the Germans had to use vast numbers of troops to guard and contain Allied prisoners, troops that could have and were needed to be deployed else where.

Hi Guy Those who were executed were not all English, they came from Comonwealth countries including 2 from New Zealand, John Pohe and Arnold Christenson . Have a great Day Regds. from NZ

Two dislikes? I didn't realize that any Germans had survived from 1944, old contemptibles to say the least!

Bloody brilliant chaps Didn't think it would these many likes

Guy would have escaped

Is that a fart at 7:38?

I think that remake the film but make it more realistic make it a drama

It’s funny how some of real people in great escape hated the idea of Americans helping out in the movie lol one of British who escaped said American didn’t help and weren’t interested and call the movie horse shit

Let's not forget all the barbaric a cruel slaughter carried out by the "Allied" forces during and after the war. Lest the one with bloody hands point fingers.

Meanwhile in the Great Patriotic War further to the east...

fourteen thousand? Bloody hell! fourteen thousand? no way... Guy Martin some times exaggerates things and reminds me of a peasant when he speaks that way... I liked the video where he met Jason Button and Jason showed Guy the real class between working class and normal people. No offence to Guy but he needs to change the way he talks.

The film make them look like hero but in fact most of them were coward hiding from the war, bunch of cowards.