Colditz Castle (or Schloss Colditz in German) is a Renaissance castle in the town of Colditz near Leipzig, Dresden and Chemnitz in the state of Saxony in Germany. The castle is between the …

Starting in 1940, this gloomy, Saxon castle above a small town in eastern Germany was used to house the most "difficult" of the Allied POWs. The prisoners' dramatic and ingenious escapes …

Colditz: With David McCallum, Richard Heffer, Paul Chapman, Jack Hedley. The series deals with Allied prisoners of war imprisoned at Colditz Castle and their many attempts to escape …

Colditz Castle, German prisoner-of-war camp in World War II, the site of many daring escape attempts by Allied officers. The castle sits on a steep hill overlooking the Mulde River as it …

Colditz is a British television series co-produced by the BBC and Universal Studios and screened between 1972 and 1974.

During the early months of the war, the German military identified Colditz Castle as an ideal site for a high-security prison. On a rocky outcrop above the Mulde River, the fortress had long …

Herrschersitz, Jagdschloss, Witwenresidenz – mit seinen weißen Giebeln ist Schloss Colditz eines der schönsten mitteldeutschen Baudenkmäler des 16. Jahrhunderts – und Ausflugsziel …

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 …

Colditz is a country town in the state of Saxony in Germany. It is widely known for its medieval castle, which served as a prisoner-of-war camp for Allied officers during World War II.

During WW2 the Castle was located in the very centre of a Greater Nazi Germany, ideally located for a PoW Camp far from any neutral frontiers. In the Cold War it was located in the East of …