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 ...

Escape from Colditz is being manufactured for the first time in more than 30 years Popular board game Escape from Colditz is making a comeback after more than 30 years out of production. The wartime ...

The two ‘German’ officers marched smartly through the castle gates, their footsteps muffled by the driving snow. Sentries saluted them as they disappeared into the darkness. It was January 1942, and ...

The repeated escape attempts and day to days lives of prisoners inside one of Nazi Germany's most notorious prisoner of war camps have been revealed with a collection of photographs. German ...

In this episode of WW2 Wayfinder I travel to Eastern Germany to visit Colditz Castle, home to troublesome Allied Prisoners of War! Believed to be the perfect prison camp for prisoners who had made ...

Channel 4 to air a one-off documentary about an audacious plan devised by British prisoners held at Colditz Castle during the Second World War to escape from the Nazis in the 'Colditz Cock' - a glider ...

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Colditz Castle, a forbidding medieval edifice near Leipzig, Germany, was supposed to be the Nazis' most escape-proof prison. Incorrigible Allied officers who had repeatedly escaped from other camps ...

Now as a team of engineers have reconstructed – and flown – the “Colditz Cock” for a Channel 4 programme Escape From Colditz ...

Forged papers used by a British escapee from Colditz to make one of the first "home runs" back to the UK from the notorious German prisoner-of-war camp are being sold along with his medals. The tale ...

With two new films about it in the pipeline and a youth hostel about to open there, now might be just the time to pay a visit to Oflag IVc, better known as Colditz castle, the world's most famous ...