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Alex Lees was one of the last survivors of the historic (but largely unsuccessful) World War II mass escape from Stalag Luft III, a German prisoner-of-war camp, that inspired the 1950 book and '63 movie The Great Escape. Lees died in Bishopton, Scotland, near Glasgow, on April 22, 2009 at age 97