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The Colditz Story
Allied prisoners - British, Dutch, French and Polish - pool their resources to plan numerous escapes from the "escape-proof" German P.O.W. camp housed in a Medieval castle known as "Colditz".














25 February 1912, Wednesbury, Staffordshire, England, UK


22 July 1926, Stratford, London, England, UK


29 May 1923, Berlin, Germany


June 10, 1895 in Hamburg, Germany

23 August 1901, Vienna, Austria-Hungary [now Austria]

June 19, 1887 in Lemberg, Galicia, Austria-Hungary [now Lviv, Ukraine]

October 22, 1913 in Antwerp, Belgium

10 June 1926, Forest Hill, London, England, UK

19 April 1928, Teplitz-Schönau, Czechoslovakia [now Teplice Sanov, Czech Republic]