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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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.

Colditz Castle - allegedly the most impregnable POW camp in the whole of Germany and home to those prisoners considered most dangerous by the Nazi high command. Yet from 1940 to 1945, over 300 men ...

Colditz is a British television series co-produced by the BBC and Universal Studios and screened between 1972 and 1974. The series deals with Allied prisoners of war imprisoned at the supposedly ...

In the final months of World War II, prisoners of war in Colditz began building a glider to fly out of the camp. However the war ended before they could try it. Now Dr Hugh Hunt, an engineer from ...