Escape from Colditz is being manufactured for the first time in more than 30 years Popular board game Escape from Colditz is making a comeback after more than 30 years out of production. The wartime ...

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 ...

Thrilling narratives of escape from captivity during World War II are legion. The story of Colditz is one of the best known: an oft-recounted tale of jolly good chaps, all in it together, outwitting ...

It was an escape right out of a Boys' Own adventure - and one of the most celebrated tales of British ingenuity to emerge from World War Two. And now the forged papers that made it possible for one of ...

Channel 4 Commissioning Editor for History Julia Harrington has commissioned Windfall Films to make Escape from Colditz (working title), due for transmission on Channel 4 in the summer. This 90-minute ...

An armed forces veteran has gone back into battle for a Wigan charity as he attempts to relive a real-life escape from Colditz. Colin Stein is currently replicating the 600-mile World War Two prison ...

When Billy Pilgrim, the protagonist of Kurt Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse-Five, is captured by the Germans in December 1944, he gets taken first to a POW camp near the Czech border. Most of the prisoners ...

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 ...

While SCi have snapped up the rights to make a game based on the classic war movie "The Great Escape", Codemasters have gone one better by announcing that Wide Games are currently working on a game ...

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 ...

This film is about the most audacious plan ever devised to escape from a prison camp. In 1945, two British prisoners of war were to be catapulted from the roof of notorious Colditz Castle in a ...

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 ...