Captain Julius Morris Green was captured by Nazis in 1940 at Dunkirk He spent most of the war in POW camps including Colditz castle MI9 recruited him as a spy and he sent information back in coded ...

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 ...

During World War II, the Germans convert the castle of Colditz into an escape-proof prison where recidivist escapees are imprisoned under one roof. The most accomplished escape artists are ...

Although it was considered a high security prison, it boasted one of the highest records of successful escape attempts.The keys were part of the security that the Germans believed made Colditz ...

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 ...

This Canadian Creamery Butter tin comes from Colditz Castle in Germany. The tin was part of a Red Cross parcel, sent to Allied Officers imprisoned there during the Second World War. I acquired it ...