JOHN BULL ADVERTISING CARD "THE ONE THAT GOT AWAY"
History
John Bull is the name of a succession of different periodicals published in the UK during the period 1820–1960. In its original form, a Sunday newspaper published from 1820 to 1892, John Bull was a champion of traditional conservatism. From 1906 to 1920, under Meber of Parliament Horatio Bottomley, John Bull became a platform for his trenchant populis views. A 1946 relaunch by Odhams Press transformed John Bull magazine into something similar in style to the American magazine The Saturday Evening Post.
Franz Xaver Baron von Werra (13 July 1914 – 25 October 1941) was a German WW2 fighter pilot and flying ace who was shot down over Britain and captured. He was the only German POW to escape from Canadian custody and return to Germany apart from a U-Boat seaman, Walter Reich, said to have jumped from a Polish troopship into the St Lawrence River in July 1940. Werra managed to return to Germany via the US, Mexico, South America and Spain, finally reaching Germany on 18 April 1941.
Oberleutnant von Werra was awarded the Knights Cross on 14 December 1940. His story was told in the book The One That Got Away by Kendall Burt and James Leasor, which was made into a film of the same name, starring Hardy Kruger.
Item Description
Produced by John Bull this card advertises an editorial coming up in its magazine on Baron Von Werra as "The One That Got Away".