Oddball docu with a floating dual focus examines both the "real" Von Werra, golden-haired flyboy of the Third Reich whose great escape as a POW made him a darling of the press, and the screen Von ...

With all its other worries, the U.S. Department of State last week was worried about the answer to two questions: Where in the world was Baron Franz von Werra? Who had helped him to skip the U.S., ...

Last January Baron Franz von Werra, captured Nazi pilot, escaped from Canada to the U.S. Last week he escaped from the U.S. The Canadians had at least made it hard for him to get away. Held in the U.S ...

This is the dramatic true story of Franz Von Werra, the only German prisoner-of-war in Britain to escape and return to his homeland. During the Battle of Britain, his plane is hit and it plunges down ...

Columnist Andrew King recreates the great escape of P.O.W. Franz von Werra outside Ottawa. 365 Bloor Street East, Toronto, Ontario, M4W 3L4 © 2025 National Post, a ...

Oddball docu with a floating dual focus examines both the "real" Von Werra, flyboy of the Third Reich whose great escape as a POW made him a darling of the press, and actor Hardy Kruger, who played ...