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 ...

This story is part of the February 11 edition of Good Weekend. See all stories. Ben Macintyre has written more than a dozen books about World War II and the Cold War ...

Only four POWs had successfully fled the German fortress when English Territorial Army Lieutenant Airey Neave and his Dutch partner Tony Luteyn walked out on January 6, 1942. Neave, born 100 years ago ...

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 ...

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 ...

Richard Vero, who grew up in Dulwich, south London, but now lives in the German town of Colditz, claims the castle could lose some of its historic escape tunnels and theatre if the work is done. “It ...

It was an unlikely location for the reunion of a group of men who had spent years as enemies, trying to outwit one another in the midst of a brutal global war. But one summer evening in June 1974 they ...

Channel 4 Commissioning Editor for History Julia Harrington has commissioned Windfall Films to make Escape from Colditz (working title), due for transmission on Channel 4 in the summer. This 90-minute ...

The best known and most notorious PoW camp in history is Colditz, an 18th century castle in eastern Germany. With its imposing walls, steep cliffs, and rigorous policing, it was seen as the ultimate ...