# Escaping Colditz: WWII's Notorious Prison Camp — WHE Article Discussion **URL:** \ **Category:** WHE Articles\ **Created:** [September 2, 2025, 7:14am UTC](https://community.worldhistory.org/t/escaping-colditz-wwiis-notorious-prison-camp-whe-article-discussion/990 "2025-09-02T07:14:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 2\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![markzcartwright](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/community.worldhistory.org/markzcartwright/32/35_2.png) [@markzcartwright](https://community.worldhistory.org/u/markzcartwright)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2025, 7:14am UTC](https://community.worldhistory.org/t/escaping-colditz-wwiis-notorious-prison-camp-whe-article-discussion/990/1 "2025-09-02T07:14:00Z")
Colditz Castle in Saxony, Germany, sits high on a precipitous cliff face that towers above a tributary of the river Mulde. First built in the 11th century, the forbidding castle was variously used as a lunatic asylum, a sanatorium for the wealthy, and, through the 1930s, as a prison for enemies of Nazi Germany. In 1939, the castle took on its most famous role: a camp for Allied prisoners of war who had repeatedly attempted to escape from less secure camps. Considered escape-proof by the German army authorities who ran it, the prisoners at Colditz had other ideas, some of which were ludicrous failures, but many others were audacious successes. * * * _This is a companion discussion topic for the original content at [https://www.worldhistory.org/article/2791/escaping-colditz/](https://www.worldhistory.org/article/2791/escaping-colditz/)._ ---
**Author:** ![markzcartwright](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/community.worldhistory.org/markzcartwright/32/35_2.png) [@markzcartwright](https://community.worldhistory.org/u/markzcartwright)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2026, 6:12pm UTC](https://community.worldhistory.org/t/escaping-colditz-wwiis-notorious-prison-camp-whe-article-discussion/990/2 "2026-07-28T18:12:22Z")
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