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History Unplugged Podcast

How to Escape From a Nazi Prison Fortress

History Unplugged Podcast

History Unplugged

History, Society & Culture

4.24K Ratings

🗓️ 27 September 2022

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

Looking at Colditz Castle, it was no surprise why the Nazi’s chose the towering fortress as their prison-of-war camp for the most defiant Allied prisoners. Perched high above a rocky outcrop with thick medieval walls of stone, the men who had escaped...

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Looking up at Cold It's Castle, it wasn't any surprise why the Nazis chose the fortress as their prisoner of war camp for the most defiant Allied prisoners.

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It was perched high above a rocky outcrop with thick medieval walls of stone, built in the 12th century.

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In Nazis reason that the men who had escaped other camps would have no such luck here.

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But these were officers, and according to the Geneva Convention, they couldn't be put into force labor, so they had nothing but time on their hands.

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