https://padlet.com/4801855514/4v5zyap5oqohwh5q The Greatest Prison Breakout of the 20th Century en-us 2023-02-08 19:03:07 UTC 2023-02-08 20:22:15 UTC hello@padlet.com 4801855514 https://padlet.com/4801855514/4v5zyap5oqohwh5q/wish/2473972713 2023-02-08 19:06:49 UTC https://padlet.com/4801855514/4v5zyap5oqohwh5q/wish/2473972713 4801855514 https://padlet.com/4801855514/4v5zyap5oqohwh5q/wish/2473983167 Genre: Narrative Nonfiction / Biography

Setting: Takes place at Holzminden, a prisoner-of-war camp. This camp is compared to Alcatraz.


]]> 2023-02-08 19:13:26 UTC https://padlet.com/4801855514/4v5zyap5oqohwh5q/wish/2473983167 4801855514 https://padlet.com/4801855514/4v5zyap5oqohwh5q/wish/2473996421 Main Characters were three pilots named: David Gray, Cecil Blain and Caspar Kennard.

Theme: Friendship and Determination.
Friendship because the three pilots had to work together as one to plan and carryout their escape plan. Determination because the pilots encountered many hardships throughout their journey to freedom. ]]> 2023-02-08 19:23:08 UTC https://padlet.com/4801855514/4v5zyap5oqohwh5q/wish/2473996421 4801855514 https://padlet.com/4801855514/4v5zyap5oqohwh5q/wish/2474034643 At the height of World War I, Allied and German forces battled in the trenches and in the air. Any of the captured soldiers and pilots were sent to German prisons. The most dangerous Prisoners of War, the ones who were the most talented at escaping, were sent to Holzminden, also known as "Hellminden." Every barrier imaginable protected this prison, rules enforced with cruel precision, and the prison was run by the heartless director, Karl Niemeyer. The story of a group of creative and hostile Allied pilots and soldiers who escape from Holzminden, without being caught by Niemeyer. Constructing a team who tunneled underneath the prison walls and their grand escape.]]> 2023-02-08 19:52:20 UTC https://padlet.com/4801855514/4v5zyap5oqohwh5q/wish/2474034643 4801855514 https://padlet.com/4801855514/4v5zyap5oqohwh5q/wish/2474038664 This book calls out to the people who like suspense and not knowing what is going to happen unless they keep reading. Personally, this book was a good read for me because I couldn't stop reading it unless I knew what happened. From the time the pilots crashed to their freedom, I had no idea what was going to unfold next.]]> 2023-02-08 19:55:32 UTC https://padlet.com/4801855514/4v5zyap5oqohwh5q/wish/2474038664 4801855514 https://padlet.com/4801855514/4v5zyap5oqohwh5q/wish/2474048893 "The first of the breakout artists had made it."

This is my favorite quote because it shows success after all the hardships the crew had to go through.]]> 2023-02-08 20:03:40 UTC https://padlet.com/4801855514/4v5zyap5oqohwh5q/wish/2474048893 4801855514 https://padlet.com/4801855514/4v5zyap5oqohwh5q/wish/2474069755 Imagery: "The cruelest commandants sentenced prisoners to months of solitary confinement in small, vermin-infested cells." 
Simile: "The RFC was increasingly being seen as a suicide club..."
Imagery: "The soldiers were so close the three officers could see their bootlaces as  they passed."]]> 2023-02-08 20:21:52 UTC https://padlet.com/4801855514/4v5zyap5oqohwh5q/wish/2474069755