The Colditz Story

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Dr Eggers was a small man with warm brown eyes, quite unlike the character who portrayed him in the original BBC television series. Talking about the film he said: “The truth is much better. So much happened at Colditz that there was no need to dream up stories. There were never any Gestapo at the castle, no ‘planted agent’. However I am not so proud of the fact that there were 19 ‘home runs’ by prisoners while I was there, but I treated it like a game, a battle of wits.

Colditz in the Digital Historic Index of Places in Saxony ( Digitales Historisches Ortsverzeichnis von Sachsen)IWM (March 1989). "IWM interview [with Lorne Welch]". IWM Collections Search . Retrieved 15 April 2013. French Lieutenant Raymond Bouillez escaped from a hospital after an unsuccessful attempt to jump from a train.

History of German Currency— A complete history of changes in German Currency. Retrieved April 5, 2005.

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Another officer, not listed as among the Prominente but who became famous after the end of the war, was French military chaplain and Catholic priest Yves Congar, who was captured as a POW and later sent there after repeated attempts to escape. He became a noted theologian and was made cardinal in 1994, at age 90. [9] On 14 April 1945, the U.S. Army entered the town and freed the prisoners. However, under agreements signed at the Yalta Conference, the Americans withdrew and were replaced by Soviet occupation forces late in June 1945. As a result, Colditz and the entire state of Saxony became part of East Germany. In 1958, the publicly owned porcelain factory was established. It produced a major part of the dishes used by Mitropa, as evident by the manufacturer's logo "cp". Both porcelain and chamotte industry went into decline after 1990. [5]

ColditzCastle.Net Oflag IVc & Colditz — A definitive history & guide to visiting: large photo gallery, then & nowAfter the liberation of Colditz Castle by the Americans, he retired from active service and returned to his post as a teacher as he was able to prove that he had never joined the Nazi Party. He became a headmaster and then a lecturer at Halle University.