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444: 759: 456: 428: 654: 1241:("Armed Forces High Command") decided that Colditz should hold only British and Commonwealth officers. Because of this decision, all of the Dutch and Polish prisoners and most of the French and Belgians were moved to other camps in July. Three British officers tried their luck by impersonating an equal number of French when they were moved out, but they were later returned to Colditz. Several officers tried to escape during transit, having first caused themselves to be transferred for that purpose. German security gradually increased and by the end of 1943 most of the potential ways of escape had been plugged. According to Reid, efforts to escape ceased to be worthwhile once the prospect of an Allied victory (and consequent liberation of the camp) seemed assured — probably around the time of the 673:. In order to get into position, both men put themselves into solitary confinement. After forcing open the door and picking the locks, they made their way to the courtyard, where they climbed up to a narrow ledge. From the ledge they were able to cross to the guard house roof, and climb through an open window on the outer wall. Reusing their bed sheet rope, they lowered themselves towards the ground. They were caught when the German guards heard the hobnailed boots of one of the escapers scraping the outside of the guardhouse wall. The guard who spotted the escapers shouted 'Hände hoch!' (Hands up!) to the men as they were descending the rope. 682: 799:

After the previous escape attempts by Cazaumayo and Paille, the doors (one on each floor) which had provided access to the tower, had been bricked up in order to prevent further escape attempts. However, by sealing up the tower the Germans had in essence provided a secure location where tunnelling could be done without being noticed. The French this time gained access to the tower from the attics, descended 35 m to the cellars, and began work on a horizontal shaft in June 1941. This shaft work would continue for a further eight months.

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clock tower. Noises were heard below, and after lowering a small boy down the shaft, three French officers were found. After searching the cellar thoroughly, the entrance to the tunnel was eventually discovered a mere 2 m (6.5 ft) short of completion. The French were convinced that they had been betrayed by one of their own countrymen, but this was denied by the guards who demanded the French pay to repair the damage (estimated at 12,000 Reichsmark).

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Dominic Bruce seized the opportunity and was packed inside of a Red Cross packing case, three feet square, with just a file and a 40-foot (12 m) rope made of bed sheets. Bruce was then taken to a storeroom on the third floor of the German Kommandantur, and that night made his escape. The following morning the German guards stationed found the dangling bed rope. When they entered the storeroom, they found the empty box on which Bruce had inscribed

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through a nearby garden. They travelled by train to join the Colditz escape route at Dresden, showing German cigarettes as they passed through the police checks. Going via Nuremburg they continued to Ulm, accepting a drink from a German soldier along the way. Finally they ended up in Switzerland where they later held a great Christmas party with other escapers.

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casually out of the courtyard gate. He passed the first guard without incident, but the guard at the main gate asked for his token — tokens were issued to each guard and staff member at the camp guardhouse specifically to avoid this type of escape — with no hope of bluffing his way out of this, Perodeau surrendered.

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for a bribe (100 of which were paid up front). This plan took three months of preparation. On the evening of 29 May 1941, Pat Reid hid in the canteen when it was locked up for the night. He removed the bolt from the lock on the door and returned to the courtyard. After the evening meeting, the chosen

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On 5 June 1941, while returning from the park to the castle, some British prisoners noticed that a passing lady had dropped her watch. One of the British called out to her, but the lady kept walking instead of retrieving her watch. This aroused the suspicion of the German guards and, upon inspection,

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in his pockets, and had himself sewn into one of the mattresses. He managed to get himself loaded onto the truck, and unloaded into an empty house within the town. Cutting himself out of the mattress several hours later, when all he could hear was silence, he climbed out of the window into the garden

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disguised as a Red Cross doctor). When a new commandant arrived at Colditz in the summer of the same year, he enforced rules restricting prisoners' personal belongings. On 8 September, POWs were told to pack up all excess belongings and an assortment of boxes was delivered to carry them into storage.

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claims 32 escaped, but only 15 were "home runs": 1 Belgian, 11 British, 7 Dutch, 12 French, and 1 Polish. The difference is that Reid claims any successful escape by an "official" Colditz POW a "home run" whereas most other historians only consider escapes from the castle or castle grounds itself as

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The horizontal shaft towards the chapel progressed 4 m (13 Ft) before they hit rock too hard to dig. They then decided to dig upwards towards the chapel floor. From here the tunnel continued underneath the wooden floor of the chapel for a distance of 13.5 m (44.3 Ft). To do this,

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in the floor of the canteen. After initial reconnaissance trips, it was decided that the drain should be extended, and an exit made in a small grassy area which was overlooked from the canteen window. From here, they planned to climb down the hill, and drop down below the steep outside east wall of

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Photograph showing W.E. Hammond and D. Lister in Switzerland after escaping from their prisoner of war camp at Lamsdorf. Armed with forged identity papers, money and civilian clothing, Hammond and Lister volunteered to wash up the Sunday soup cauldrons in the wash house and slipped out of the camp

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The tunnel had electric lighting along its whole length, powered by electricity from the chapel. This allowed the tunnellers to see what they were doing and signal the arrival of sentries. The entrance to the tunnel in the wine cellar was concealed by five large stones covering a small door, which

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Tunnelling continued well into 1942. By then Germans knew that the French were digging somewhere, based on the noise of tunnelling reverberating through the castle at night. The French thought that its entrance was undetectable. However, on 15 January the Germans eventually searched the sealed-off

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timbers in the floor, measuring 0.5 m (1.3 Ft) square, had to be cut through. Homemade saws, assembled from German table knives, were employed for this task. With this completed, the tunnel dropped vertically from the far corner of the chapel a further 5.2 m (17 Ft). The tunnel

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and descended 8.6 meters (28.2 Ft) into the ground using the shaft which contained the ropes and weights for the clock. They found that the weights which used to hang down the shaft, and the chains, had been removed. This left an empty shaft which extended from the clock to the cellars below.

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Nine French officers organized a long-term tunnel-digging project, the longest ever attempted out of Colditz Castle. Deciding that the exit should be on the steep drop leading down towards the recreation area, outside the eastern walls of the castle, they began to scout for a possible location for

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Behind him in the tunnel were seven British and four Polish officers. On his order the remaining men backed up the tunnel to evade detection, but the Germans were waiting for them outside the canteen. Not wanting to give their captors any satisfaction, the British burst into laughter as they came

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On the night of 28 December 1942, one of the French officers deliberately blew out the fuse on the lights in the courtyard. As they had anticipated Pöhnert was summoned, and while he was fixing the lights, Lieutenant Perodeau, dressed almost identically to Pöhnert and carrying a tool box, walked

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he got a lift with a senior SS officer. Allan recalled that ride as the scariest moment of his life, "To be vulgar, I nearly needed a new pair of trousers." Allan had been aiming to reach Poland, but soon after reaching Vienna he found he was out of money. At this time the Americans had not yet

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In September 1942, Chief Petty Officers Wally Lister and Tubby Hammond arrived in Colditz with the Royal Navy contingent. They had been promoted to the rank of officer so that they might stay with their friends, but technically they were in the wrong camp, and after a month they applied to be

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escaped January 5, 1942. Crawled through a hole in a camp theatre (after a prisoner performance) to a guardhouse and marched out dressed as a German soldier. He reached Switzerland two days later. This first successful British escape was a joint British-Dutch effort. Neave later joined

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left little trace of any hole. Debris was transported in sacks hoisted up the clock tower to the castle's attics. The wine cellar was regularly cleaned and re-dusted using dust harvested from the attic, so as to hide the reddish clay dust which was not present in the cellar ordinarily.

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then proceeded out towards the proposed exit with two further descents, separated by shafts in the tough stone foundations of the castle. The tunnel now ran a horizontal distance of 44 m (144 Ft), reaching a final depth of 8.6 m (28.2 Ft) below the ground.

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toys in the UK), was a US citizen and he felt that they would provide sanctuary because of this. Allan had been on the run at this point for nine days. Broke, exhausted, and hungry, he fell asleep in a park. Upon waking he discovered he could no longer walk owing to his

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from the castle to another camp and decided that it would be his way out. He let the French officers moving the mattresses know that one would be a little bit heavier. Allan, a fluent German speaker thanks to his schooling in Germany before the war, prior to attending

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Johannes Lange took photographs of the would-be escapers in their disguises or re-enacting their attempts for the camera. Along with the Lange photographs, one of the two sculpted clay heads was displayed proudly in the museum. Security officer

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heads to stand in for escaping officers at roll call. Later, "ghosts", officers who had faked a successful escape and hidden in the castle, took the place of escaping prisoners at roll call in order to delay discovery for as long as possible.

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in September 1944. Sinclair attempted a repeat of the 1941 French over the wire escape. Security officer Eggers warned him after which Sinclair was fired upon by guards. A bullet hit Sinclair on the elbow and ricocheted through his heart.

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that there were 31 "home runs", whereas German authorities cite 30, and some other sources count 36. Reid included prisoners from the hospital and prisoners being transported, who were not directly under Colditz staff control.

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even dressed as German Sergeant Major Rothenberger (an NCO in the camp garrison), when he tried to organize a mass escape, and French Lieutenant Perodeau disguised himself as camp electrician Willi Pöhnert ("Little Willi"):

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he certified a number of prisoners as insane; they were consequently repatriated. He then convinced the Germans of his own insanity and returned to Britain the same way. Four other British officers claimed symptoms of

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French prisoners, incarcerated in Colditz Castle during the Second World War, spent some 8 months digging an escape tunnel. This 5.2m vertical shaft, located in a corner of the chapel, is a small part of the

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escapees slipped into the canteen unnoticed. They entered the tunnel and waited for the signal to proceed. Unknown to the prisoners, they had been reported by the bribed guard. Waiting on the grassy area was

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transferred to the troop camp at Lamsdorf, where they joined work gangs in the local fields and factories: escaping was easy, and after a series of adventures, they crossed the Swiss frontier on 19 December.

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to have himself transferred into an Indian-only camp. His wish was granted three weeks later and he escaped from that camp to France and reached Switzerland in 1944 with the aid of the French Resistance.

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escaped October 14, 1942. Slipped through POW kitchens into the German yard, into the Kommandantur cellar and down to a dry moat through the park. It took him four days to reach Switzerland.

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escaped July 2, 1941. He was captured trying Collin's method. Later vaulted over a wire in the park with the help of an associate. He reached Switzerland in eight days on a stolen bicycle.

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escaped October 14, 1942. He slipped through POW kitchens into the German yard, into the Kommandantur cellar and down to a dry moat through the park. He reached Switzerland in five days.

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Prisoners built a false wall to hide the space in the attic where they slowly built the glider out of stolen pieces of wood. Since the Germans were accustomed to looking down for

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and David Walker, who had recently arrived in the camp. It would be Tony Rolt who would recommend the chapel roof, since he noticed it was obscured from the view of the Germans.

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French Lieutenant René Collin escaped May 31, 1941. He climbed into the rafters of a pavilion during exercise, hid there until dark and slipped away. He made it back to France.

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The two-man glider was to be assembled by Bill Goldfinch and Jack Best in the lower attic above the chapel, and was to be launched from the roof in order to fly across the

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care packages for fear it would force the Germans to stop their delivery to all camps. The Germans became skilled at intercepting packages containing contraband material.

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a "home run". Also a subject of debate is whether or not Lieutenant William A. Millar's escape should be considered a "home run", but since he is listed as "

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Early in 1941, the British prisoners had gained access to the sewers and drains which ran beneath the floors of the castle. Entrance to these was from a

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On 12 May 1941, Polish Lieutenants Miki Surmanowicz and Mietek Chmiel, attempted to rappel down a 36 m (120 Ft) wall to freedom on a

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and other luxuries with him for trading. Flight Lieutenant Cenek Chaloupka traded goods for information and even had a girlfriend in the town.

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were constructed from floor boards. Control wires were made from electrical wiring taken from unused portions of the castle. A glider expert,

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British Lieutenant William A. Millar escaped January, 1944. He broke into the German courtyard and hid in a German truck intending to go to

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entered the war, so Allan decided to ask the American consulate for assistance. He was refused. Allan's stepmother, Lois Allan (founder of

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The prisoners also used items from their Red Cross packages to bribe guards and local citizens. Since the Germans allowed the disabled

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escape equipment to them by hiding it in care packages from family or from non-existent charities. However, they never tampered with

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Although the Colditz Cock never flew, the concept was fictionalized, depicting a successful flight and escape, in the 1971 TV movie

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Upon escaping from captivity, POWs still faced the considerable challenge of negotiating their way to non-hostile territory. The

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inmates. Despite some mistaken beliefs to the contrary, Colditz Castle was not used as a prisoner of war camp in World War I.

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In late 1940, British officer "Peter" Allan (real name, Anthony Murray Allan) found out that the Germans were moving several

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even declared Colditz "escape-proof." In spite of this claim, there were many well-documented escapes and failed attempts by

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the entrance. The problem was solved by Lieutenants Cazaumayo and Paille, who had gained access to the clock tower in 1940.

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the castle. Knowing which sentry would be on duty on the night of the escape, they pooled their resources and collected 500

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The resulting glider was to be a 109 kg (240 lb) two seater, high wing, monoplane design. It had a Mooney-style

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had to be constructed, predominantly from bed slats, but also from every other piece of wood the POWs could obtain. The

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was to be constructed from tables and the glider was to be launched using a pulley system based on a falling metal

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The only known photo of the original "Cock" glider taken by newspaper correspondent Lee Carson on April 15, 1945.

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The Germans buried Sinclair in Colditz cemetery with full military honours — his casket was draped with a

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was known ironically as the "medium-sized man". He arrived at Colditz in 1942 (after attempting to escape from

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French Lieutenant Raymond Bouillez escaped from a hospital after an unsuccessful attempt to jump from a train.

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Prisoners contrived a number of methods to escape. They duplicated keys to doors, made copies of maps, forged

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Ruft, Rainer (2016). "»The Singen-Route« - Fluchtwege alliierter Offiziere über Singen in die Schweiz".

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Fake holster and medals used in the 'Franz Josef Escape Attempt'. Exhibits in The International Museum of WW2

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Camp guards collected so much escape equipment that they established a "Kommandant's Escape Museum". Local

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French Lieutenants J. Durand-Hornus, G. de Frondeville and J. Prot escaped while on a visit to the town

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Fake equipment used in the 'Franz Josef Escape Attempt'. Exhibits in The International Museum of WW2.

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Dutch Major C. Giebel escaped September 20, 1941, using the same method as Larive and Steinmetz.

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flag made by the German guards, and he received a seven-gun salute. Post-war he was awarded the

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British Lieutenant-Commander William E. Stephens escaped October 14, 1942, with Littledale.

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was boiled and used to seal the cloth pores. The war ended before the glider was finished.

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Metal objects hidden by Colditz Castle prisoners for future use, on display in the former

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There was only one confirmed fatality during the escape attempts: British Lieutenant

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magazine article on the Colditz Glider by Wade H. Nelson. Retrieved March 21, 2005.

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In one of the most ambitious escape attempts from Colditz, the idea of building a

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Colditz: The Definitive History: The Untold Story of World War II's Great Escapes

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escaped April 11, 1941. He hid in a terrace house in a park during a game of

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with Best and Goldfinch in tearful attendance. It is currently housed at the

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documentary, and was flown successfully by John Lee on its first attempt at

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which specialized in escape equipment, communicated with the prisoners in

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Dutch Lieutenant J. van Lynden slipped away when the Dutch were moved to

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Dutch Lieutenant O. L. Drijber escaped September 20, 1941, with Giebel.

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military hospital. His three companions were captured, but he reached

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but has a good list of books available about Colditz and its POWs.

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route into Switzerland was discovered by Dutch naval lieutenant

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twice dressed as a guard, French Lieutenant Boulé disguised in

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Lieutenant Bouley after his failed escape attempt from Colditz

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Die Luft in Colditz gefällt mir nicht mehr. Auf Wiedersehen!

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to leave the prison and visit the town of Colditz, he took

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The chest used by Dominic Bruce in the 'tea chest' escape.

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A replica of the Colditz glider was built for the 2000

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in 1940 on his first escape attempt from Oflag VI-A in

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Hegau-Geschichtsverein e. V.: 263–278. 1460:Belgian Captain Louis Rémy escaped from 1335:, and reached Switzerland in three days. 1323:escaped August 15, 1941. He hid under a 1018: 871:, was brought up by two British pilots, 164:This article includes a list of general 1584: 1381:escaped September 9, 1942, with Fowler. 1446:French Lieutenant Boucheron fled from 1111:made of beech, with cupboard bolt and 2005:List of attempts to escape Oflag IV-C 1818:London: Hodder & Stoughton, 2001. 1059:spring with 8 teeth / in (3 mm teeth) 328:), and manufactured their own tools. 50:List of attempts to escape Oflag IV-C 7: 1900:Bibliographie par Frédéric Mortimore 1367:escaped January 5, 1942, with Neave. 1256:on medical grounds. 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