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 ...

High above the sleepy German town, the twilight gave way to darkness as a detachment of soldiers strode purposefully through the castle corridor. They stopped at a door and, exchanging knowing glances ...

Situated just south of Leipzig, Germany, lies Colditz Castle. During World War II, it was used as a prison camp by the German Heer. Since it was considered almost impossible from which to escape, the ...

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 ...

A photo of the four escapees A wanted poster issued by the German authorities in 1942 ‘One hundred per cent luck isn’t good enough,” wrote Lieutenant Commander William “Billie” Lawson Stephens of the ...

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 ...

He dug, he climbed and sometimes he just made a downright daring break for it when the guards were not looking. While incarcerated in Colditz, Colonel Peter Storie-Pugh, who died peacefully this week ...

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 ...

This film is about the most audacious plan ever devised to escape from a prison camp. In 1945, two British prisoners of war were to be catapulted from the roof of notorious Colditz Castle in a ...

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 ...