Colditz Castle, one of the most notorious prisoner of war camps in Nazi Germany, was supposed to be escape-proof. But in the dark days at the end of World War II, a group of British officers dreamt up ...

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 great escape plot devised by British prisoners held at Colditz Castle during World War II is finally to come to fruition. The brave men had planned to fly to freedom across Germany's River Mulde on ...

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 ...

Having served as the legless Battle of Britain hero's batman during three years of captivity - carrying him up and down stairs, cooking his meals and washing his clothes - Ross assumed his former boss ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...