 The 1963 motion picture "The Great Escape", which greatly depicts some of the Serenders and Kinnan's experiences, showed a choir singing while the escape started but in actuality, it was the Serenaders.The Serenaders contributed to the effort regularly by practicing their instruments to mask the sound of digging.Towards the end of the war as the Red Army were nearing Stalag Luft III, the Germans forced marched 12,000 prisoners to Stalag VII-A in Bavaria.