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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Alain Le Ray, a French general and World War II Resistance leader who was the first man to escape from a notorious Nazi prison, died Monday, his family announced. A cause of death was not given. He ...

Blind Dave Heeley and his intrepid team of cyclists are inside the walls of Colditz castle. Sign up for the top news stories every day to keep you informed with what's going on in the West Midlands.

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 ...

COLDITZ, Germany — Colditz Castle squats on the second-highest hill here, dour and dumpy, a relic of a time when officers considered themselves gentlemen and war was conducted with at least a pretense ...