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* ComicbookTime: [[AvertedTrope Averted]]. The series moves slowly but consistently along the entire war. Thanks to their insular existence, it's only occasionally that dates can be established. ("Court Martial" must take place in September of '41, as the Germans have reached Leningrad. "French Leave" mentions that Rommel has been called back from Africa, placing it in mid-March of '43. D-Day happens entirely offscreen in "The Gambler".)
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** This is a big part of [[spoiler: Tony Shaw's]] mindset. [[spoiler: He thinks he's incapable of contributing anything original in academia. In the war he became a hero purely by virtue of accidentally staying alive long enough - he only does solo reconnaissance missions because he doesn't think he can be trusted in a group effort. And in his DayInTheLimelight episode, he admits he just doesn't know how to live for himself anymore, so if the other prisoners want a larger-than-life hero, that's what he'll give them, and he comes up with the glider scheme. He never "breaks character" again before the end of the series]].
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** This is a big part of [[spoiler: Tony Shaw's]] mindset. [[spoiler: He thinks he's incapable of contributing anything original in academia. In the war he became a hero purely by virtue of accidentally staying alive long enough - he only does did solo reconnaissance missions missions, but it's not because he's especially brave, it's because he doesn't think he can be trusted in a group effort. And in his DayInTheLimelight episode, he admits he just doesn't know how to live for himself anymore, so anymore. So if the other prisoners want a larger-than-life hero, that's what he'll give them, and he comes up with the glider scheme. He never "breaks character" again before the end of the series]].
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* PrisonerPerformance: In the episode "Frogs in the Well" of the original television series, the British prisoners ask for the boarded-up theatre to be reopened for the sake of putting on an entertainment. The real reason is that there is an escape route via the theatre. However, they don't know that some French prisoners have the same idea.
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* BigDamnVillains: [[spoiler:The Germans, at the behest of Preston, saving the life of a Polish traitor who was about to be hanged by his fellow prisoners.]]
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* POWCamp: Of TheAlcatraz variety.
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: The Kommandant and Ulmann. Not so much Mohn.
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: The Kommandant and Ulmann. Not so much Mohn.
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* ScaryShinyGlasses: A local Gestapo officer.
* TheScrounger: André Vaillant.
* TheScrounger: André Vaillant.
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* VillainExitStageLeft: [[spoiler: Major Mohn]], towards the end.
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* VillainousRescue: [[spoiler:The Germans, at the behest of Preston, saving the life of a Polish traitor who was about to be hanged by his fellow prisoners.]]
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** There are British NCOs in Colditz but they are housed separately from the officers and work as orderlies. They help scrounging up items for the escapes but are not included in the escape attempts. Carter explains that an escaped officer who is captured will be returned to Colditz and will be punished with solitary confinement. An escaped enlisted man risks being sent to a concentration camp.
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** There are British NCOs [=NCOs=] in Colditz but they are housed separately from the officers and work as orderlies. They help scrounging up items for the escapes but are not included in the escape attempts. Carter explains that an escaped officer who is captured will be returned to Colditz and will be punished with solitary confinement. An escaped enlisted man risks being sent to a concentration camp.
