“He bounced off the roof of a barn and landed in a pig pen after his plane was shot down over Schweinfurt, Germany, in 1943. He lost 30 pounds during two years as a POW at Stalag Luft III, the camp depicted in the movie The Great Escape. He’s dug through trash for food, eaten barley soup with his hands and slept in ankle-deep cow manure.”
Well maybe because the guy bombed Wolfgang’s home town and Wolfie felt obligated to Der Fuhrer by turning him away...
The prisoner of war camp for The Great Escape was a British camp. There were no Americans.