The answer to the crossword for the term SETTING FOR 'THE GREAT ESCAPE' is STALAG, which stands for 'Stammlager', a German term for a prisoner-of-war camp. The Great Escape is a 1963 American epic war film based on an escape by British Commonwealth prisoners of war from a German POW camp during World War II. The setting for the movie was Stalag Luft III, a real-life German POW camp located in what is now Żagań, Poland.