Colditz

Colditz Castle, Saxony, Germany. Taken from our hostel window. My boyhood obsession with all things POW escape stories lead us here (a tricky journey by public transport, and not a place one might usually associate with being difficult to get to).

Inside Colditz Castle, in the Prisoners Courtyard, for anyone who used to watch the TV programme. Not sure if the car could be useful.

The 'only' entrance in and out of the prisoners courtyard, Colditz Castle. Airy Neave crawled along inside the roof space above the archway shown, popped down through the officers quarters suitably disguised and then strolled out to freedom. He later served a war crime indictement to Goering, became a tory MP before being car bombed by the IRA.

The VIP cell occupied by Giles Romily, the only VIP to escape (temporarily) from Colditz.

Colditz Castle, Saxony, Germany. Royal household turned Lunatic Asylum turned Gestapo prison turned POW camp turned 70's sado tele. The Brits planned to fly their glider off a ramp on top of the section of castle closest to us on the right, for those interested ...