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Colditz: Prisoners of the Castle

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As described by the author, the prisoners were an amalgam of self-identified “communists, scientists, homosexuals, women, aesthetes and philistines, aristocrats, spies, workers, poets, and traitors” who created their own replica of pre-war society and culture within the prison as a means of survival.

Micky Burn, another combat hero with a very different personality, was a brash bisexual who veered from an early love affair with Nazism to embrace of communism. The surroundings of the castle were the scene of a real battle before it was liberated by American troops. The British also began to set up clubs: bridge, chess, sports clubs, but also the social clubs that were so much a part of prewar British culture. In a letter to his parents from captivity, Burn wrote, “I am now living in a castle, as most of the best people do at this time of year. And parts of Ben Macintyre’s latest book, “ Prisoners of the Castle: An Epic Story of Survival and Escape From Colditz, the Nazis’ Fortress Prison ,” do read like a fairy tale.Ben Macintyre is the multimillion-copy bestselling author of books including 'Agent Sonya', 'SAS: Rogue Heroes', 'The Spy and the Traitor', 'Agent Zigzag', 'Operation Mincemeat' and 'A Spy Among Friends'. Lee Carson, a beautiful and fearless journalist who traveled with American troops, who was known as the “Rhine Maiden. It wasn’t a concentration camp and these weren’t SS fanatics – they were professional soldiers, who went out of their way to observe the rules of the Geneva Convention. Colditz was a crucible for the most amazing variety of human responses to circumstances that were beyond their control.

Soon thereafter the castle became an administrative office for the Office of Colditz and a hunting lodge. She was a Scotswoman in Warsaw, speaking perfect Polish and posing as a Polish housewife, who was actually running the escape networks out of Poland.You have to bear in mind that at this point the collaborationist Vichy government was operating in southern France, and quite a few of the prisoners were very pro-Vichy, and some were clearly extremely anti-Semitic. It is set in a POW camp in Poland and portrays the real-life audacious escape attempt of 76 Allied airmen during WWII. During 1694, its then-current owner, King Augustus the Strong of Poland, began to expand it, resulting in a second courtyard and a total of 700 rooms. e.; the “arse keeper,” a cylinder to hide money, small tools and other objects in one’s anatomy was most creative. Since the castle is situated on a rocky outcrop above the River Mulde, the Germans believed it to be an ideal site for a high security prison.

When he was shot down, the Germans allowed the RAF to deliver a new leg, which seemed an incredible allowance during wartime. While POTC offers a fascinating glimpse into the lives of the prisoners within the walls of the Colditz castle POW camp as well as those of some of the more prominent guards of the castle, at times, it was a bit of a slog. Prisoners cooperated in digging tunnels, one of which was known as Le Metro dug mostly by the French, performing logistics, obtaining and making tools, and often attempted an escape that involved a substantial number of men. Like all myths, the reality is much more complicated and much more interesting than the black-and-white moral fable we’ve inherited. The prisoners created numerous committees to regulate prisoner life and tried to produce a sense of normality.The prisoners self, almost exclusively English, although there were also some small contingents of Polish, French and Dutch prisoner, were mostly all upper class, who treated the enlisted man who served them with disdain. The camp's first British prisoners were the Laufen Six on November 7, 1940, who were transferred to Colditz after their first escape attempt from the Laufen Camp. Years ago, you could see a replica of a glider that was clandestinely built at Colditz Castle, on the top floor of the Imperial War Museum in London.

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