| Colditz Castle - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (8601 words) |
 | Colditz Castle is a castle in the town of Colditz near Leipzig, Dresden, and Chemnitz in the state of Saxony in Germany (51° 7′ 38.208″ N, 12° 48′ 30.384″ E). |
| In one of the most ambitious escape attempts from Colditz, the idea of building a glider was dreamt up by two pilots, Jack Best and Bill Goldfinch, who had been sent to Colditz after escaping from another POW camp. |
| The Colditz Story (1955) was a dramatic film re-enactment of life in the camp during WW2, based entirely on the novels of Pat Reid, directed by Guy Hamilton, who would later go on to direct three of the James Bond movies. |
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