Überleben im Zweiten Weltkrieg - Flucht auf Kreta - Report / Zeitgeschichte

Hazen Audel fights strong waves in a rowboat as he follows the route of the escaped soldiers. (National Geographic/Correll Johnson)

German soldiers playing cards whilst on duty inadvertently provide the prisoners with an opportunity to escape. (National Geographic)

Hazen Audel, host of National Geographic's Ultimate Survival WWII. (National Geographic/Correll Johnson)

Escapee Dudley Perkins is picked up by a submarine after being on the run from the nazis for a year. (National Geographic)

Under the cover of darkness the POW's seize their chance and escape under the barbed wire fence. (National Geographic)

Hazen Audel sits in high mountains, preparing wood to build a fire. (National Geographic/Correll Johnson)

Hazen Audel carefully travels through a vast boulder field. (National Geographic/Icon Films/Alex Holden)

Hazen Audel manages to find a lobster while on hunt for food under water. (National Geographic/Icon Films/Alex Holden)

Hazen Audel makes sandals with a knife, rubber tire and string. (National Geographic/Correll Johnson)

Hazen Audel cooks a lobster he caught by hand in the sea. (National Geographic/Correll Johnson)

Hazen Audel walks through a rock valley , heading along the soldier's escape route. (National Geographic/Correll Johnson)

Hazen Audel holds a lobster he caught by hand in the sea. (National Geographic/Correll Johnson)

Hazen Audel battles strong waves trying his best not to crash into the rocky coast. (National Geographic/Icon Films/Alex Holden)

Leaflets dropped from the sky, warning the escaped prisoners that winter is coming and offering them a chance to return to the prison camps unharmed. (National Geographic)