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A crack team rebuilds a glider that POWs hoped to catapult off the top of Colditz Castle. A crack team rebuilds a glider that POWs hoped to catapult off the top of Colditz Castle. Airing May 14, 2014 ...

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 ...

Book of the Week. Colditz is synonymous with daring escapes by stiff-upper-lipped British POWs. Samuel West reads the incredible true story of the most infamous prison in history.

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 ...

Situated just south of Leipzig, Germany, lies Colditz Castle. During World War II, it was used as a prison camp by the German Heer. Since it was considered almost impossible from which to escape, the ...

Reinhold Eggers, who was promoted from duty officer to chief of security at Colditz Castle in 1944, served on the prison's staff for longer than anyone else, from November 1940 until the end of the ...