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 ...

A British war hero’s secret paintings depicting prisoner life inside Colditz Castle are being sold nearly 70 years later to help pay for the site's upkeep. Captive Major William Anderson turned to ...

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 ...

Colditz may have been a notorious Nazi prisoner of war camp, but a newly-unearthed film shows its inmates and guards still found time to fool around. The extraordinary footage – the only known film of ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Growing up in the seventies, World War II was writ large in the imaginations of young boys such as myself. There were endless films on TV, celebrating the tragedies, triumphs, victories and failures ...

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 ...