trivia:
Werner Klemperer who played Colonel Klink was jewish and escaped Germany with his family in the 1930s.
Several of the actors in "The Great Escape" had been POWs in WW2:
- Donald Pleasance was in the RAF and held in a German POW camp.
- Hannes Messemer who played the Camp commander had been a POW of the Russians;
- Til Kiwe who played one of the German Guards had a been held in an American POW camp. He actually did excape a few times, once making it all the way from Colorado to St. Louis.
- Hans Reiser who played a Gestapo Agent had also been held by the U.S.A.
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