A look at the harsh realities of life as a POW in the notorious Colditz Prison during World War Two as told by those who were there.

The Colditz movie will be based on the memoirs of Major Pat Reid, who ran the Colditz escape committee. His story was the basis for the 1954 film The Colditz Story, which starred John Mills as Reid.

Colditz castle was used by the Germans to hold the "bad boys", (those who regularly tried to escape from other camps). At all times, the guards outnumbered the prisoners and, because some ...

Colditz Castle, a forbidding medieval edifice near Leipzig, Germany, was supposed to be the Nazis' most escape-proof prison. Incorrigible Allied officers who had repeatedly escaped from other ...

Of all the prisoner of war escapes that almost were, the one involving the Colditz glider is certainly among the most ingenious. Built secretly in an attic of Colditz castle, the glider was an ...