Question: When Roger is explaining the escape plan, he says that Tom will run under the vorlager, the cooler, and the wire. The cooler and the wire are obvious, but what's the vorlager?
Captain Defenestrator
25th Jun 2011
The Great Escape (1963)
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Chosen answer: Vorlage is German for "forward position," so this likely refers to either the main gate, or a machine gun nest.
Captain Defenestrator