The 60th anniversary of the liberation of Colditz falls on the 16th of next month. And yet the passing of the decades has done nothing to diminish the strength of feelings that the notorious German ...

In 1943, French prisoners of war launched a mouse wearing a tiny parachute from a fourth-story window of Colditz, an ancient castle towering over Germany’s Mulde River. The liberation of the miniature ...

On a snowy day in December, 1943, while he looked out over the German town of Colditz, POW Bill Goldfinch noticed snowflakes outside his window drifting upward. Perhaps it would be possible, he ...

Thrilling narratives of escape from captivity during World War II are legion. The story of Colditz is one of the best known: an oft-recounted tale of jolly good chaps, all in it together, outwitting ...

Colditz Castle, a forbidding medieval edifice near Leipzig, Germany, was supposed to be the Nazis' most escape-proof prison. Incorrigible Allied officers who had repeatedly escaped from other camps ...

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 ...

Alain Le Ray, a French general and World War II Resistance leader who was the first man to escape from a notorious Nazi prison, died Monday, his family announced. A cause of death was not given. He ...

Ben MacIntyre has had a successful and lucrative career as a writer mostly of war stories, predominantly set during the second World War. Operation Mincemeat, the story of the cadaver that helped to ...

The repeated escape attempts and day to days lives of prisoners inside one of Nazi Germany's most notorious prisoner of war camps have been revealed with a collection of photographs. German ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...