Hi
Apparently some people escaped from POW camps with the intention of getting back to England and continueing the war, other escaped to tie up the Germans using vital resources looking for escapees with some treating it as a game.
After the Great Escape and the execution of the fifty orders went out from London that there were to be no more escape attempts and that the POWs were to sit out their captivity until the end of the war.
Regards
Arthur
