On a snowy day in December, 1943, while he looked out over the German town of Colditz, POW Bill Goldfinch noticed snowflakes outside his window drifting upward. Perhaps it would be possible, he ...
Channel 4 to air a one-off documentary about an audacious plan devised by British prisoners held at Colditz Castle during the Second World War to escape from the Nazis in the 'Colditz Cock' - a glider ...
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A great escape plot devised by British prisoners held at Colditz Castle during World War II is finally to come to fruition. The brave men had planned to fly to freedom across Germany's River Mulde on ...
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 ...
A World War II major who was a prisoner at Colditz will be honoured with a series of postcards showing his art. Copies of 30 paintings by Major William Anderson, from Conwy, will be sold to visitors ...
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 ...
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