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 ...

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 ...

(This program is no longer available for online streaming.) Colditz Castle, a notorious prisoner of war camp in Nazi Germany, was supposed to be escape-proof. But in the dark days at the end of World ...

THE COLDITZ STORY (288 pp.) —P R. Reid—Lippincott ($3.95). Two British officers, talking things over one day in June 1940, agreed that what they had chiefly in common was an intense desire to be ...

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.

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 ...

PARIS (Reuters) - General Alain Le Ray, a leading figure in France's wartime resistance and the first man to escape from the notorious Colditz prison camp has died at the age of 96, according a death ...

The best known and most notorious PoW camp in history is Colditz, an 18th century castle in eastern Germany. With its imposing walls, steep cliffs, and rigorous policing, it was seen as the ultimate ...