Mostly just asking due to a bit of family history that I was told over Easter. According to my family, my Grandfather Reginald Foster escaped from a German POW camp bordering the Black Forest in the last months of the war after being captured. He was with a few other British troops, but was the only one to survive the flight through the forest.
Curious whether this is a legitimate occurrence, since I've googled the subject and found no evidence. Of course, that isn't a hugely-deep source, but I felt that an account of escaped POWs struggling through the forest would have some notability at the time.
Edit: POW, not POV. Whoops.
The Holzminden escape was pretty big. There is decent coverage on this event; the book by H.G Durnford is well recommended. I also recommend the following: The Escaping Club – A.J. Evans, The Road to En-Dor – E.H. Jones, Within Four Walls –M.C.C. Harrison and H.A. Cartwright. There isn't as much coverage on WWI escapes compared to those of WW2, but there were still many significant escapes.