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Added sections on a transmitter in the POW Camp, and a program to send escape aides to POWs.

Added two sourced sections, which may or may not be related to each other, but both mention Stalag Luft III by name. One book source says prisoner Cundall built a transmitter. Second section relates a secret program to send escape aides to the POWs, including transmitters and crystal receivers. Perhaps this second section was the source of Cundall's transmitter, rather than (tubes, or valves) being dangerously sourced by bribery and built from scratch. Crystal radio receivers are mainly used for receiving (very) high powered medium wave or short wave broadcasters. They are far from ideal for a receiver for a two-way radio exchange, even in CW (Morse Code), which by comparison are typically low power transmitters. Even so, transmitting "answers" to POWs (e.g., train schedules!) would give up that game!

<CommsO> CommsO (talk) 06:20, 26 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]

There are problems with [this section](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stalag_Luft_III#Stalag_Luft_III_radio_transmitter):

1) it is not written with WP:NPOV in mind. Specifically, the use of first person plural pronouns indicate that Wikipedia (we) is to be interpreted as the allies. Much as Nazis' evilness is a settled theme (I hope), the text would be better match wikipedia's voice with more neutral language. Another option is to make this a quote of the source.

2) the section begins with a popular culture reference and works back to the facts. There is a popular culture reference section elsewhere in the article, so perhaps that belongs there. Alternatively, a brief mention of the cultural reference at the end could also work. fmobus (talk) 18:20, 27 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Moosburg

The prisoners were not marched all the way to Moosburg, Stalag 7A. They were marched to Spremburg where they were loaded onto cattle cars for the train trip to Moosburg. 76.149.62.74 (talk) 18:46, 27 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Citation? MapReader (talk) 19:00, 27 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Offizier Lager

Sorry, that's not German. 2A02:AA1:1148:2A53:8121:63F8:FA89:DE1B (talk) 12:24, 24 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Bram Vanderstok's Book

I have run across the book "Escape from Stalag Luft III: The True Story of My Successful Great Escape" by Bram Vanderstok (listed on the cover as Bob Vanderstok) ISBN-10: 1784384348, ISBN-13: 978-1784384340. I don't know enough about the subject to consider editing, but perhaps this should be added to the References section?

The page on Van de Stok (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bram_van_der_Stok) does reference the book. Phyllostachys (talk) 07:48, 16 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Which King's College? (section Camp life 1942-1944)

The exams were supplied by the Red Cross and supervised by academics such as a Master of King's College who was a POW in Luft III.

It would help if the location of the King's College mentioned was given. I suspect it was part of a university that had such a named college, like those of London or "Oxbridge". I wonder if the Master happens to have a wiki article about him? The college is named without the place in the citation to a transcript of an interview with former camp inmate Bertram (Jimmy) James, who according to his wiki article did not go to university after his public schooling at King's School, Canterbury. Worth investigating by those with access to more material about the camp's history.Cloptonson (talk) 15:39, 30 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Broken sentence in subsection Aftermath, section The Great Escape (1944)

I believe there appears to be an abruptly short, possibly half deleted sentence, and questionable bracketing (both emphasised in italics), in this passage:

Over subsequent days, prisoners collated the names of 47 prisoners they considered to be unaccounted for. On 15 April (17 April in some sources. The Red Cross paid a visit to the camp on 22 May 1944. The previous visit had taken place on 26 July 1943) the new senior British officer, Group Captain Douglas Wilson (RAAF), surreptitiously passed a list of these names to an official visitor from the Swiss Red Cross.

Please could this be checked out. Perhaps there is an omission or/and need for a rephrase.Cloptonson (talk) 06:27, 31 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]