Escape from Colditz Author:P. R. Reid Colditz Castle was the German prison fortress reserved for all the enemy officers who had escaped from other German prison camps. Here were gathered together in one place the most desperate and daring men of half a dozen Allied nations- their single though: Escape. — The Germans regarded Colditz as escape-proof, for the Castle's garrison outnumb... more »ered the prisoners at all times. At night the fortress was floodlit from every angle; there were clear drops of one hundred feet from the barred windows; there were sentries just outside the barbed wire; then further drops and more sentried...
Yet the men went on escaping from Colditz...« less