A Tunnel to Freedom

I was on the escape committee, and I was one of the escapers. And we had a very successful tunnel which worked very well and got fifty-two of us out into the open country. But of course the problem then was you were so far from any, any place where you could get help, you were on your own, in a hostile country, with lots of people looking for you and in fact nobody succeeded in getting home. But they...we all tried. I...you... you lost all your, you had no physical strength left. You’d been...it’s easy to say you should have done so and so, but you, you haven’t had enough food and couldn’t carry enough food and very few of the people who got out made it home. I mean there were, there may have been fifty out in a year and seven get, made it home.