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Colditz

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Colditz
a town in E Germany, on the River Mulde: during World War II its castle was used as a top-security camp for Allied prisoners of war; many daring escape attempts, some successful, were made


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CAPTION(S): Vehicles disembarking from landing craft on D-Day, June 6, 1944 Colditz Castle, in Saxony, Germany, on April 10, 1945, just three days before US forces over-ran the area
War archive photos bring conflict to life by Daily Post (Liverpool, England)
One image - shot by an unarmed RAF pilot in 1945 - shows prisoners in the yard at the notorious Colditz prison camp.
HIGH SPY; Archive of secret wartime aerial photos goes online by The Mirror (London, England)
Desmond Llewelyn - who died in 1999, aged 85 - was held in the notorious German Colditz Castle prison camp for five years from 1940.
Bond star war file is released by Daily Record (Glasgow, Scotland)
 
 
 
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