Standing inside Colditz Castle, we trace the escape attempts that turned a “high security” prison into a battlefield of patience and nerve. From disguises that almost worked to tunnels that took ...

A crack team rebuilds a glider that POWs hoped to catapult off the top of Colditz Castle. A crack team rebuilds a glider that POWs hoped to catapult off the top of Colditz Castle. Airing May 14, 2014 ...

Colditz Castle was a maximum security prison from which no one was meant to escape... but escape they did. Take a fresh look at the legendary escapes, featuring stories from both Colditz survivors and ...

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.

Colditz Castle - allegedly the most impregnable POW camp in the whole of Germany and home to those prisoners considered most dangerous by the Nazi high command. Yet from 1940 to 1945, over 300 men ...

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 Colditz Story portrays the real-life experiences of Allied prisoners of war held in the formidable German fortress Colditz Castle during World War II. It focuses on their inventive escape ...

Colditz is a British television series co-produced by the BBC and Universal Studios and screened between 1972 and 1974. The series deals with Allied prisoners of war imprisoned at the supposedly ...