Prisoners held in Colditz castle during World War II regularly enjoyed strip shows from local women, a new book has revealed. In Colditz: Prisoners of the Castle, author Ben Macintyre writes that ...

PARIS – Gen. Alain Le Ray, a leader in the French Resistance during World War II whose escape from a notorious Nazi prison forged his image and career, has died, his family said Thursday. He was 96.

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 ...

The two ‘German’ officers marched smartly through the castle gates, their footsteps muffled by the driving snow. Sentries saluted them as they disappeared into the darkness. It was January 1942, and ...

Growing up in the seventies, World War II was writ large in the imaginations of young boys such as myself. There were endless films on TV, celebrating the tragedies, triumphs, victories and failures ...

HELD in one of Nazi Germany’s most notorious PoW camps, Major William Anderson found freedom in art during four long years of captivity. HELD in one of Nazi Germany’s most notorious PoW camps, Major ...

Amazing photos showing daring escape bids from the Nazis “inescapable” Colditz Castle prison camp have come to light. They show the ingenuity of the Allied fighters who devised ever-bolder ways of ...

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 ...

ROYAL servants have likened their Covid-secure quarters at Balmoral to Colditz prison camp. A hand-picked team of aides have travelled to Scotland and are in two-week quarantine as they prepare for ...

Amazing photos showing daring escape bids from the Nazis “inescapable” Colditz Castle prison camp have come to light. They show the ingenuity of the Allied fighters who devised ever-bolder ways of ...