A £5 million ITV drama about Colditz Castle, scene of 300 Allied escape attempts in the Second World War, is causing dismay among survivors because the script shows Nazi camp commanders in an ...

The Colditz Story is an intriguing and occasionally humorous depiction of the real-life adventures of British and Polish prisoners of war who plot an escape from a German maximum-security prison in ...

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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 camps ...

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 ...

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 ...

Sitting on the sofa in his tiny apartment, 86-year-old Alfred Heinrich shows me his wartime snaps: old portraits of himself as a dashing young soldier in the Wehrmacht. Mr Heinrich was lucky to ...

South Africa actor Hans Meyer has died aged 94. The TV and film star - best known for his role in 1972 TV show Colditz - passed away in Neuilly sur Seine, France on April 3. A representative for Meyer ...

The idea of setting a new version of hit sitcom Blackadder in the German prisoner-of-war camp Colditz Castle has been revealed. The show's producer John Lloyd revealed that he and star Rowan Atkinson ...

A £5 million ITV drama about Colditz Castle, scene of 300 Allied escape attempts in the Second World War, is causing dismay among survivors because the script shows Nazi camp commanders in an ...

There's a whole world under the surface and only Ron has any idea about it. And sometimes the two worlds collide, and sometimes they don't. Ron holds them at arm's length from each other. Watch every ...

Simon Heffer discusses the film The Colditz Story, which celebrated British resilience and reminded cinemagoers of a time of undisputed British superiority. Show more Uncomplaining Tommy Atkins, the ...