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Creation Date

1918

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This photograph depicts instruments which prisoners could use in escape attempts from German prisons smuggled via food parcels. The Germans discovered a number of tubes baked into a cake sent by the French Red Cross. The tubes contained materials which could be used to help prisoners escape.

Keywords

Germany, Crime, Escape, French POWs, World War 1914-1918

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