The 60th anniversary of the liberation of Colditz falls on the 16th of next month. And yet the passing of the decades has done nothing to diminish the strength of feelings that the notorious German ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

In this riveting history of Nazi Germany’s most notorious POW camp, bestseller Macintyre (Agent Sonya) spotlights the indomitable will and creativity of the inmates who tried to escape from it.

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 ...

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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Ben Macintyre's new book about Colditz casts fresh light on the myths about the German POW camp. Photo: Supplied / Stuff Prefer us on Google It is always pleasing when you are reading a book about far ...

An adaptation of Ben Macintyre’s book digs deep into wartime mythology and the behaviour of Douglas Bader Anita Singh Arts and Entertainment Editor Anita Singh is the Telegraph’s arts and ...

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 ...