Thrilling narratives of escape from captivity during World War II are legion. The story of Colditz is one of the best known: an oft-recounted tale of jolly good chaps, all in it together, outwitting ...

Standing inside Colditz Castle, we trace the escape attempts that turned a “high security” prison into a battlefield of patience and nerve. From disguises that almost worked to tunnels that took ...

Schloss Colditz now has a new museum in the wing where hundreds of Allied soldiers were imprisoned - Sebastian Theilig Looking out of my bedroom window in Schloss Colditz, I find it hard to fathom how ...

Maj. Patrick Reid, the British World War II officer who escaped from Colditz Castle, a supposedly impregnable Nazi prison camp, has died, an official said Thursday. He was 79. Kenneth Lockwood, ...

Alain Le Ray, a French general and World War II Resistance leader who was the first man to escape from a notorious Nazi prison, died Monday, his family announced. A cause of death was not given. He ...

The Nazis used Colditz Castle as a detention facility for Allied soldiers. A group of Dutch officers devised a clever plan to escape the camp. Their plot, which led four men to freedom, involved only ...

In this riveting history of Nazi Germany’s most notorious POW camp, bestseller Macintyre (Agent Sonya) spotlights the indomitable will and creativity of the inmates who tried to escape from it.

Major George Drew, who has died aged 87, helped his fellow prisoners to cope with the boredom and deprivations of Colditz Castle during World War II by producing potent homemade alcohol. He and his ...

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