PARIS – Gen. Alain Le Ray, a leader in the French Resistance during World War II whose escape from a notorious Nazi prison forged his image and career, has died, his family said Thursday. He was 96.
The two ‘German’ officers marched smartly through the castle gates, their footsteps muffled by the driving snow. Sentries saluted them as they disappeared into the darkness. It was January 1942, and ...
A British war hero’s secret paintings depicting prisoner life inside Colditz Castle are being sold nearly 70 years later to help pay for the site's upkeep. Captive Major William Anderson turned to ...
Schloss Colditz now has a new museum in the wing where hundreds of Allied soldiers were imprisoned - Sebastian Theilig Looking out of my bedroom window in Schloss Colditz, I find it hard to fathom how ...
Amazing photos showing daring escape bids from the Nazis “inescapable” Colditz Castle prison camp have come to light. They show the ingenuity of the Allied fighters who devised ever-bolder ways of ...
HELD in one of Nazi Germany’s most notorious PoW camps, Major William Anderson found freedom in art during four long years of captivity. HELD in one of Nazi Germany’s most notorious PoW camps, Major ...
Sitting on the sofa in his tiny apartment, 86-year-old Alfred Heinrich shows me his wartime snaps: old portraits of himself as a dashing young soldier in the Wehrmacht. Mr Heinrich was lucky to ...
Growing up in the seventies, World War II was writ large in the imaginations of young boys such as myself. There were endless films on TV, celebrating the tragedies, triumphs, victories and failures ...
Amazing photos showing daring escape bids from the Nazis “inescapable” Colditz Castle prison camp have come to light. They show the ingenuity of the Allied fighters who devised ever-bolder ways of ...
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