1 successful attempts
1.1 colditz castle , grounds
1.2 outside colditz castle
1.3 ghost prisoners hid inside colditz castle
successful attempts
pat reid claimed in colditz: full story there 31 home runs , whereas german authorities cite 30, , other sources count 36. reid included prisoners hospital , prisoners being transported, not directly under colditz staff control. henry chancellor in colditz: definitive history claims 32 escaped, 15 home runs : 1 belgian, 11 british, 7 dutch, 12 french, , 1 polish. difference reid claims successful escape official colditz pow home run whereas other historians consider escapes castle or castle grounds home run . subject of debate whether or not lieutenant william a. millar s escape should considered home run , since listed missing in action (unofficially, assumed dead), chancellor not count him such.
at end of may 1943, oberkommando der wehrmacht ( armed forces high command ) decided colditz should hold british , commonwealth officers. because of decision, of dutch , polish prisoners , of french , belgians moved other camps in july. 3 british officers tried luck impersonating equal number of french when moved out, later returned colditz. german security gradually increased , end of 1943 of potential ways of escape had been plugged. several officers tried escape during transit, having first caused transferred purpose.
some officers faked illnesses , mental illness in order repatriated on medical grounds. member of royal army medical corps (ramc), captain ion ferguson, wrote letter irish friend in suggested ireland join war; letter stopped censors, wish moved elsewhere granted. in stalag iv-d certified number of prisoners insane; consequently repatriated. convinced germans of own insanity , returned britain same way. 4 other british officers claimed symptoms of stomach ulcers, insanity, high blood pressure, , injury in order repatriated. there were, in addition, officers went genuinely insane.
from colditz castle , grounds
from outside colditz castle
ghost prisoners hid inside colditz castle
^ manchester, reading room. casualty details .
^ reid, patrick robert (1953). latter days @ colditz. london: hodder , stoughton
^ http://www.seayourhistory.org.uk/component/option,com_gallery2/itemid,402/g2_itemid,21056
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