TEXT ç Ï Tim Carroll
The Dodger is the long awaited story of Johnny Dodge a wartime hero and a pivotal figure in the escapade immortalised in the legendary Hollywood film The Great EscapeOf all the Allied prisoners who broke out of Hermann Göring's 'escape proof' camp in the famous episode of March 1944 Johnny Dodge was the most intriguing American born Dodge was a cousin by marriage of Winston Churchill When the Second World War broke out he volunteered for the A
Tim Carroll Ï The Dodger DOC
The DodgerRmy but was uickly captured after the debacle of Dunkirk He became a prisoner of war and an inveterate escapologist and troublemaker eventually becoming one of the ringleaders of the 'Great Escape'Surviving the murderous Gestapo he was thrown into a VIP compound of Sachsenhausen concentration camp on the orders of Heinrich Himmler but escaped once After recapture Johnny was spirited away by the SS to a meeting in Berlin with Hitler's interprete