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 ...

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 ...

Schloss Colditz now has a new museum in the wing where hundreds of Allied soldiers were imprisoned - Sebastian Theilig Looking out of my bedroom window in Schloss Colditz, I find it hard to fathom how ...

Forged papers used by a British escapee from Colditz to make one of the first "home runs" back to the UK from the notorious German prisoner-of-war camp are being sold along with his medals. The tale ...

Amazing photos showing daring escape bids from the Nazis “inescapable” Colditz Castle prison camp have come to light. They show the ingenuity of the Allied fighters who devised ever-bolder ways of ...

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 ...

COLDITZ, Germany — Colditz Castle squats on the second-highest hill here, dour and dumpy, a relic of a time when officers considered themselves gentlemen and war was conducted with at least a pretense ...

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 ...

Sitting on the sofa in his tiny apartment, 86-year-old Alfred Heinrich shows me his wartime snaps: old portraits of himself as a dashing young soldier in the Wehrmacht. Mr Heinrich was lucky to ...

Forged papers used by a British escapee from Colditz to make one of the first "home runs" back to the UK from the notorious German prisoner-of-war camp are being sold along with his medals. The tale ...