Although it was considered a high security prison, it boasted one of the highest records of successful escape attempts.The keys were part of the security that the Germans believed made Colditz Castle ...

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 at ...

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 ...

At a new museum inside Schloss Colditz, our writer hears tales of derring-do involving abseiling, dirty laundry and a sewing machine William Cook writes about travel in continental Europe for The ...

Ever since the day we had taken Fergus to see the Colditz-themed 'Great Escapes' show at the Imperial War Museum in London, he had become mildly obsessed by the idea of tunnelling to freedom. I wasn't ...

Only 11 British officers managed to escape from Colditz. There were 109 unsuccessful attempts The two men were inmate and guard at the Nazis' Colditz castle prisoner of war camp. Major Peter Parker of ...

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 at ...