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 ...

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 ...

Growing up in the seventies, World War II was writ large in the imaginations of young boys such as myself. There were endless films on TV, celebrating the tragedies, triumphs, victories and failures ...

Ben Macintyre's new book about Colditz casts fresh light on the myths about the German POW camp. Photo: Supplied / Stuff It is always pleasing when you are reading a book about far and foreign places ...

The Second World War was the conflict that shaped the modern world, and on this five-day escorted tour you will visit some of the great German cities and locations that were at the heart of it, and ...

This story is part of the February 11 edition of Good Weekend. See all stories. Ben Macintyre has written more than a dozen books about World War II and the Cold War ...

Alain Le Ray, a French general and World War II Resistance leader who was the first man to escape from a notorious Nazi prison, died Monday, his family announced. A cause of death was not given. He ...

An adaptation of Ben Macintyre’s book digs deep into wartime mythology and the behaviour of Douglas Bader Anita Singh Arts and Entertainment Editor Anita Singh is the Telegraph’s arts and ...

Reinhold Eggers, who was promoted from duty officer to chief of security at Colditz Castle in 1944, served on the prison's staff for longer than anyone else, from November 1940 until the end of the ...

Forged papers used by a British escapee from Colditz to make one of the first "home runs" back to the UK from the notorious German prisoner-of-war camp are being sold along with his medals. The tale ...

At a new museum inside Schloss Colditz, our writer hears tales of derring-do involving abseiling, dirty laundry and a sewing machine William Cook writes about travel in continental Europe for The ...