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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Of all the prisoner of war escapes that almost were, the one involving the Colditz glider is certainly among the most ingenious. Built secretly in an attic of Colditz castle, the glider was an ...

British filmmaker Chancellor's nonfiction debut is a comprehensive history of the medieval castle turned into a German WWII prisoner-of-war camp. Besides the expected escape stories, 15 years of ...

In the Leipzig Region, the new captivating exhibition "An Abandoned Place Comes to Life" opened at the historic Colditz Castle in April 2024. Breathing new life into the storied walls of Colditz, the ...

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 ...