Prisoners held in Colditz castle during World War II regularly enjoyed strip shows from local women, a new book has revealed. In Colditz: Prisoners of the Castle, author Ben Macintyre writes that ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

It was 1943 and the German in question, Stabsfeldwebel (Sergeant Major) Fritz Rothenberger, was the man who carried out nightly inspections of the sentries at the castle which held hundreds of the ...

Sitting on the sofa in his tiny apartment, 86-year-old Alfred Heinrich shows me his wartime snaps: old portraits of himself as a dashing young soldier in the Wehrmacht. Mr Heinrich was lucky to ...

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 ...

13:15, Mon, Sep 26, 2022 Updated: 13:15, Mon, Sep 26, 2022 Having served as the legless Battle of Britain hero's batman during three years of captivity - carrying him up and down stairs, cooking his ...

To understand Escape From Colditz, we need a little history jam session. This is an early 70s board game based on an actual escape from the Nazi Germany prison camp Colditz Castle. This is a game that ...

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 ...

Ben MacIntyre has had a successful and lucrative career as a writer mostly of war stories, predominantly set during the second World War. Operation Mincemeat, the story of the cadaver that helped to ...

It has been described as a Colditz castle for the super-rich, but this weekend the emphasis at Schloss Elmau, Colditz’s Bavarian sister castle, is on excluding the riff-raff – including Vladimir Putin ...