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WW2 Battles and Military History

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WW2 escapes were wars in miniature: one prisoner, one fence, and an entire occupied continent between a camp and home. Tunnels dug with spoons, uniforms sewn from blankets, papers forged by candlelight — this show tells the true stories of WW2 escapes from behind enemy lines.

Each episode reconstructs one escape in full, cinematic detail: the capture, the camp and its routines, the plan built gram by gram under the guards' noses, the night of the breakout, and the run across hostile country where every stranger was a coin flip. No host chatting between clips, no panel debating strategy. Just one complete story, narrated start to finish, built from debriefs, camp records, and the escapers' own accounts.

You will crawl through the great WW2 tunnel breakouts, walk with airmen passed hand to hand along resistance lines, and follow prisoners who escaped not once but three, four, five times. Some episodes follow a single night minute by minute; others trace an escaper's whole war from first capture to final border. All of them treat WW2 escapes as what they were: acts of defiance that tied down enemy divisions and gave the men behind the wire a reason to endure.

If you are drawn to WW2 escapes that read like thrillers because they were, this is built for you. New episodes drop regularly. Subscribe now so the next escape lands the moment it goes live.Copyright OBOMEDIA ENTERTAINMENT Mondiale
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  • The hacksaw blade that offered escape, and death

    The hacksaw blade that offered escape, and death
    Sep 26 2026
    In occupied France, a captured agent faces an impossible choice: betray his country to save himself, or remain silent and face death.

    The hacksaw blade that offered escape, and death

    This episode recounts the extraordinary life of Frank Pickersgill, a scholar turned secret agent, and the harrowing decisions he faced during World War II. It explores the profound question of what it means to hold silent when your life, and the lives of thousands, hang in the balance.

    Person: Frank Pickersgill
    Date: August 8, 1944
    Location: Paris, France
    Event: Prisoner transport

    - Frank Pickersgill, a Canadian graduate student fluent in multiple languages, was captured by Germans after parachuting into occupied France.
    - While interned at Stalag 220, Pickersgill used a hacksaw blade, smuggled in a loaf of bread, to escape through a window.
    - After his escape, he traveled through Lyon, Lisbon, and London, where he turned down a desk job to join the Special Operations Executive.
    - Pickersgill was assigned the code name Bertrand and parachuted back into France with fellow agent Ken Macalister and two SOE contacts.
    - Their mission was compromised when their car was stopped at a German checkpoint, leading to their capture and imprisonment.

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    14 min
  • A man crushed poison glass with his teeth rather than return to Germany

    A man crushed poison glass with his teeth rather than return to Germany
    Sep 25 2026
    A man who survived a world war and British prison chooses a glass phial of prussic acid over returning home to Germany. What would you do?

    A man crushed poison glass with his teeth rather than return to Germany

    This episode explores the life of Hermann Görtz, a decorated soldier and doctor of international law, who made a desperate choice rather than face repatriation. It delves into the events that led him to this moment, and the complex motivations behind his final act.

    Person: Hermann Görtz
    Date: May 23, 1947
    Location: Dublin Castle, Ireland
    Age: 56
    Means: Prussic acid

    - Hermann Görtz was born in Lübeck in 1890 and served on the Eastern Front in Class War I, earning the Iron Cross First Class.
    - After the war, he joined the Freikorps before earning a doctorate in international law and visiting Ireland in 1927.
    - In 1935, while working for German intelligence in Britain, he was arrested for espionage after a landlady's misunderstanding about a motorbike led police to discover secret documents.
    - He served four years in Maidstone Prison, was released in 1939, and then parachuted into Ballivor, County Meath, Ireland, in 1940 with £20,000 in cash for a mission.
    - Görtz spent nineteen months as a fugitive in Ireland, moving between at least twelve verified addresses, relying on the trust of those who harbored him.

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    20 min
  • The Rector, The Gulag, and The Missing Beethoven

    The Rector, The Gulag, and The Missing Beethoven
    Sep 24 2026
    A music rector builds a forced labor camp theater, but the state erases him in a single afternoon. His Beethoven manuscript vanishes.

    The Rector, The Gulag, and The Missing Beethoven

    This episode explores the life of Bolesław Przybyszewski, a man whose identity was interpreted in vastly different ways by those who knew him, and how the state's machinery ultimately defined his fate. What does it mean when your life's work is erased, not for what you did, but for who you were?

    Person: Bolesław Przybyszewski
    Date: August 21, 1937
    Location: USSR
    Status: Sentenced to death and executed
    Event: State execution during the Great Purge

    - Bolesław Przybyszewski was sentenced to death and executed on the same day by the Military Collegium of the Supreme Court of the USSR.
    - Before his execution, he spent years building a high-standard theater inside a forced labor camp.
    - He previously directed the Moscow Conservatory and was writing a manuscript about Beethoven that was never found.
    - Born in Berlin, he was the illegitimate son of Polish writer Stanisław Przybyszewski and was raised by his paternal grandparents after his mother's suicide.
    - As rector of the Moscow Conservatory, he implemented "proletarization," prioritizing class background over musical ability and integrating Marxist theory into the curriculum.

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    21 min
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