There's something about prisons indeed.
It is the ultimate yardstick for society. Nobody wants to be locked up against their will.
from the Animal Farmers' side it is the perfect model:
- get people you don't want there off the streets
- let them WORK for your machine
There is room for fuckery however. I am absolutely not saying "prisons are fake", but there is an incentive to fake jail and jail time. Outside of US Private Prisons or Xipings Xianyang "Re-education camps", it's cumbersome and expensive, especially in personell and training.
At the same time, at the other side of the same coin you could say, there is the romanticism of the Prison Escape. Not surprising a lot of admitted fiction has been written with that theme (later in movies, but things started off way before in books).
As "reality" (Clownworld crealities) is "stranger than fiction" (by definition nonsense, cause our imagination always outshines our real world capacities), we all got indoctrinated with the Napoleon Bonaparte on St. Helena (in the middle of the Southern Atlantic) stories, of long ago, but also younger.
The more than hilarious psyop that was organized near the end of WWII also took place in a kind of Prison
A Prisoner of War camp, Stalag Luft III
Just the intro section of the Wikipedia page of the Prison Camp itself
The site was selected because its sandy soil made it difficult for POWs to escape by tunnelling.
It is best known for two escape plots by Allied POWs......
tells you the total psychopathy in writing by these poor script writers....
Stalag Luft III (German: Stammlager Luft III; literally "Main Camp, Air, III"; SL III) was a Luftwaffe-run prisoner-of-war (POW) camp established in March 1942 near the town of Sagan, Lower Silesia, in what was then Nazi Germany (now Żagań, Poland), 160 kilometres (100 miles) south-east of Berlin.
The site was selected because its sandy soil made it difficult for POWs to escape by tunnelling.
It is best known for two escape plots by Allied POWs......
(exact same wording in the Escape from the Camp intro used twice, lazy wiki writers...)
"stranger than fiction", no, dumber than fiction. Fiction needs to make a certain sense because it tries to get to the reader who lives in reality, it is not books written by acid heads for mescaline users, right....
Just this, this is enough, to tackle the whole psyop.
Stalag Luft III (German: Stammlager Luft III; literally "Main Camp, Air, III"; SL III) was a Luftwaffe-run prisoner-of-war (POW) camp during the Second World War, which held captured Western Allied air force personnel.
The camp was established in March 1942 near the town of Sagan, Lower Silesia, in what was then Nazi Germany (now Żagań, Poland), 160 kilometres (100 miles) south-east of Berlin. The site was selected because its sandy soil made it difficult for POWs to escape by tunnelling.
It is best known for two escape plots by Allied POWs. One was in 1943 and became the basis of a fictionalised film, The Wooden Horse (1950), based on a book by escapee Eric Williams. The second breakout — the so-called Great Escape — of March 1944, was conceived by Royal Air Force Squadron Leader Roger Bushell, and was authorised by the senior British officer at Stalag Luft III, Herbert Massey.
But if you want to read some hilarious fiction, break it down by reading the nonsense. links at bottom.
Back in the days I did it when writing for Piece of Mindful, in the
Peculiar Plots series
Let’s rewind:
- The prison camp had a number of design features that made escape extremely difficult. The digging of escape tunnels, in particular, was discouraged by several factors:
- the barracks housing the prisoners were raised approximately 60 centimetres (24 in) off the ground to make it easier for guards to detect tunnelling;
- the camp had been constructed on land that had a very sandy subsoil; the surface sand was bright yellow, so it could easily be detected if anyone dumped the darker, grey dirt found beneath it above ground, or even just had some of it on their clothing. The loose, collapsible sand meant the structural integrity of any tunnel would be very poor.
- A third defence against tunnelling was the placement of seismograph microphones around the perimeter of the camp, which were expected to detect any sounds of digging.
Ninety-fecking-eight tunnels, including a “successful” one from beneath the Trojan Horse in a camp designed to make tunneling impossible. No, seriously. This story must be real, because it looks so fake…
And yes, this is the original story where the blockbuster hit war movie
The Great Escape "was based on"....
LINKS
Wikipedia:
The Great Escape (1963)
Stalag Luft III
The Great Escape Psilly Prison Escape Psyop
Other:
Piece of Mindful - Peculiar Plots - The Great Escape
