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  Thanks for that Phil I know you have an interest in the period. So those 'Great Escape' executions did take place but perhaps it was the only incident of this nature. Films tend to show it happening as a matter of course almost, which I would have thought was untrue/unfactual, but it has become something of a 'cheap terror shot' to add drama where it would not exist otherwise.
  
  It is a pity in a way because in the fullness of time these films become something of record books for the masses.
  
  There are two new films of note about to hit our screens. Valkyrie with Tom Cruise and Kenneth Brannagh about the attempted assassination of Hitler. Could be an interesting one but will accuracy be a byword. Should be interesting to find out as it is fairly rare nowadays to see a new film from WWII. Another film due out is the Frost/Nixon one made by Ron Howard. It's about the infamous Nixon interviews carried out by David Frost. However there are whole chunks of dramatic substance in the interview in the movie that Nixon never said, nor Frost never heard.
  "its not a documentary" said Director Howard. Fair enough, but sadly in due couse there wont be person in the land that wont swear that Nixon said A or B when in actual fact it will just be fiction. Pity.

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