Colditz Castle (or Schloss Colditz in German) is a Renaissance castle in the town of Colditz near Leipzig, Dresden and Chemnitz in the state of Saxony in Germany. The castle is between the …

Colditz Castle, German prisoner-of-war camp in World War II, the site of many daring escape attempts by Allied officers. The castle sits on a steep hill overlooking the Mulde River as it …

Starting in 1940, this gloomy, Saxon castle above a small town in eastern Germany was used to house the most "difficult" of the Allied POWs. The prisoners' dramatic and ingenious escapes …

Sep 2, 2025 · Colditz was liberated in April 1945, and the glider, gathering dust in an attic space, caused astonishment amongst the Allied troops who found it, a poignant reminder of the …

Colditz: With David McCallum, Richard Heffer, Paul Chapman, Jack Hedley. The series deals with Allied prisoners of war imprisoned at Colditz Castle and their many attempts to escape …

Overall, more than 130 escape attempts were recorded at Colditz, with 32 men managing to reach Allied territory. Remarkably, no prisoner was ever shot during an escape, a fact that …

Herrschersitz, Jagdschloss, Witwenresidenz – mit seinen weißen Giebeln ist Schloss Colditz eines der schönsten mitteldeutschen Baudenkmäler des 16. Jahrhunderts – und Ausflugsziel …

Jan 25, 2019 · Sitting on top of a sheer 255-foot cliff with the Mulde River below, and located deep in the heart of Nazi territory, some 400 miles to the border, Colditz Castle (Schloss Colditz) …

Colditz is a British television series co-produced by the BBC and Universal Studios and screened between 1972 and 1974.

Secret radio rooms, tunnels broken through the masonry and a secretly built glider are examples of the many tales told of the numerous creative escape attempts in the »Escape Museum«. …