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 ...

When the American army took Colditz Castle in 1945, two of the prisoners, Corran Purdon and Dick Morgan, asked to rejoin the fighting because they said they wanted to finish the war with rifles in ...

Built secretly in an attic of Colditz castle, the glider was an airworthy craft, as clearly demonstrated by the replica featured in the NOVA program "Nazi Prison Escape." Many believe that ...

Following his capture, he attempted to escape four times, leading to his relocation to the supposedly 'escape-proof' Colditz Castle in Germany. READ MORE: Gavin & Stacey fans say 'oh my Christ' as ...

Captain Julius Morris Green was captured by Nazis in 1940 at Dunkirk He spent most of the war in POW camps including Colditz castle MI9 recruited him as a spy and he sent information back in coded ...

This Canadian Creamery Butter tin comes from Colditz Castle in Germany. The tin was part of a Red Cross parcel, sent to Allied Officers imprisoned there during the Second World War. I acquired it ...