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 ...

(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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Only four POWs had successfully fled the German fortress when English Territorial Army Lieutenant Airey Neave and his Dutch partner Tony Luteyn walked out on January 6, 1942. Neave, born 100 years ago ...

Maj. Patrick Reid, the British World War II officer who escaped from Colditz Castle, a supposedly impregnable Nazi prison camp, has died, an official said Thursday. He was 79. Kenneth Lockwood, ...

Colditz Castle: Built strategically on a cliff in 11th-century Saxony, Colditz Castle had been used as a military outpost, a zoo and a mental hospital before it became a prison for political prisoners ...

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 ...