The Colditz Story

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Drue Heinz, and the little literary mystery of a wartime striptease". phoenixarkpress.com. 15 December 2010 . Retrieved 10 October 2011. As Alex Ross's story graphically reveals, the inmates were not "all in it together", as we might have imagined. Even behind bars, Macintyre reveals a class snobbery and a hierarchy. There was even a branch of the elite Oxford University Bullingdon dining club.

A replica of the Colditz glider was built for the 2000 Channel 4 (UK) 3-part (150 minute total) Escape from Colditz documentary, and was flown successfully by John Lee on its first attempt at RAF Odiham with Best and Goldfinch in tearful attendance. It is currently housed at the Imperial War Museum in London. The Channel 4 material was edited to 60 minutes and shown in the US in 2001 as Nazi Prison Escape on the NOVA television series. The television rights to the book have been optioned and it is being adapted by the same team who produced one of Macintyre’s earlier books, A Spy Among Friends, which was recently turned into a drama series for ITVX.The idea, a brilliant idea if it works, is to try to tell this story in a series of episodes, taking a different vantage point for each episode,” he explained. Escape Officers – Colditz". colditzcastle.net . http://www.colditzcastle.net/british-pows/escape-officers/ . Retrieved 10 October 2011. When glamorous US war correspondent Lee Carson arrived with the troops, Bader offered her an exclusive interview, disappeared in a jeep bound for Paris and arrived in the UK two days later to a hero's welcome. Unterfeldwebel Blatau (Roy Pattison) – An administrative clerk for Hauptmann Ulmann, Blatau prepares the briefing papers which Ulmann uses to thwart an SS takeover of Colditz.

Dominic Bruce served as navigator with Bomber Command, 1939–1941; POW in Spangenburg Castle and Oflag IV C, Colditz in Germany, 1941–1945 French Lieutenant Alain Le Ray escaped April 11, 1941. He hid in a terrace house in a park during a game of football. First successful Colditz escapee and first to reach neutral Switzerland. British Squadron Leader Brian Paddon escaped to Sweden via Danzig when sent to his previous camp for a court-martial.Reid remained in Switzerland until after the end of the war, serving as an Assistant Military Attaché in Bern from 9 March 1943 until early 1946, and receiving promotion to Temporary Major on 1 November 1945. [2] He was unusually discreet about his duties there, and was in fact working for the Secret Intelligence Service (MI6) gathering intelligence from arriving escapees. [9] Postwar [ edit ]