Peter Stevens MC (born Georg Franz Hein; 15 February 1919 – 16 July 1979) was a German Jew who flew bombers in the British Royal Air Force in World War II.

As an enemy alien living in London in the late 1930s, Hein assumed the identity of a dead schoolfriend in order to join the RAF at the outbreak of hostilities.

[3] Having reached the rank of leading aircraftman, he was commissioned as a pilot officer on probation in the Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve on 2 November 1940.

On one of those escapes, he and a Canadian pilot visited his mother's home to get civilian clothing, food and money, only to learn that she had committed suicide just before the outbreak of war.

[12] Not one of the escape party was immediately caught and the German uniforms, the dummy rifles and the forged papers, which were in the possession of Stevens and Pope, were quickly stowed away in the hides at emergency speed.

[14] Stevens was one of 35 men to escape from the latrine tunnel at Oflag XXI-B (Schubin, Poland) on 5–6 March 1943, along with Harry Day,[15] William Ash,[16] and Jimmy Buckley.

At Stalag Luft 3, Stevens was named the Head of Contacts (i.e. Scrounging) for the "X" escape organization in East Compound from April 1943 until that camp was evacuated westwards in January 1945.

His MC was announced in the London Gazette on 17 May 1946, along with those for several other RAF escapers, the citation read:[21] Flight Lieutenant Peter STEVENS (88219), Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve, No.

Flight Lieutenant Stevens set fire to the aircraft, destroyed all documents and then, in company with the navigator, commenced to walk towards Amsterdam.

On 6 October 1941, he was entrained for Warburg, and during the journey he made his escape, accompanied by another officer, by crawling through a ventilator and dropping to the ground while the train was in motion.

Here Flight Lieutenant Stevens made contact with some pre-war acquaintances who provided him with food, money and civilian clothes.

The latter discovered that it was forged, and Flight Lieutenant Stevens was then arrested and returned to the Oflag XXI-B, receiving as a punishment 14 days in the cells.

He was ultimately liberated by the Russian forces whilst at Stalag III-A on 21 April 1945.Stevens remained in Germany as aide-de-camp to Air Vice Marshal Alexander Davidson and was promoted squadron leader.

[22] He formally adopted the name Peter Stevens by deed poll on 20 March 1947, by which time he was living in East Sheen, London.

He emigrated to Canada in 1952, resigning his RAF commission on 26 September 1952 and joining the Auxiliary section of the Royal Canadian Air Force.