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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 ...

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 ...

To understand Escape From Colditz, we need a little history jam session. This is an early 70s board game based on an actual escape from the Nazi Germany prison camp Colditz Castle. This is a game that ...

Schloss Colditz now has a new museum in the wing where hundreds of Allied soldiers were imprisoned - Sebastian Theilig Looking out of my bedroom window in Schloss Colditz, I find it hard to fathom how ...

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 ...

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British filmmaker Chancellor's nonfiction debut is a comprehensive history of the medieval castle turned into a German WWII prisoner-of-war camp. Besides the expected escape stories, 15 years of ...

The first time Elaine Marsh discovered her father had served time in Colditz Castle during World War II was a phone call four years ago. Her father, Cedric Brass, never told them anything about his ...

Not even the thick walls of the 15th-century Schloss Wurzen can keep out the morning birdsong, which seems particularly loud in this quiet corner of Saxony, near Leipzig in eastern Germany. It acts as ...

At a new museum inside Schloss Colditz, our writer hears tales of derring-do involving abseiling, dirty laundry and a sewing machine William Cook writes about travel in continental Europe for The ...