Colditz: Prisoners of the Castle

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His headgear had been fashioned out of a peaked RAF cap using felt and string; his pistol holster was cardboard, shined up with brown boot polish, from which poked a piece of wood painted to look like the butt of a Walther P38 pistol. Hauptmann Reinhold Eggers, the chief German chronicler of Colditz civilized, punctilious and anglophile Photo: Private collection

Colditz: Ben Macintyre On The Real Conditions In The Infamous Colditz: Ben Macintyre On The Real Conditions In The Infamous

Douglas Bader may have been a national hero but Macintyre shows him to be a heartless, arrogant bully.Queen Maxima of the Netherlands ditches her usual colourful attire for beige coat as she joins husband Willem-Alexander conversation about societal issues The story of Colditz is one of the indomitable human spirit, but it is also one of bullying, boredom, insanity, tragedy and farce The killing machines of Hamas must have seen my wife was a Muslim... but they still shot her 20 times':...

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NANA AKUA: Royal tours to Commonwealth nations are now fraught with risk because of this misguided obsession...The ‘old school tie’ mentality not only persisted but was exacerbated in captivity, as the inmates sought to build a replica of the lives they had known before the war.