Colditz Castle

Colditz Castle is a castle in the town of Colditz near Leipzig, Dresden, and Chemnitz in the state of Saxony in Germany ({{coor dms|51|7|38.208|N|12|48|30.384|E|}}). Used as a workhouse for the indigent and a mental institution for over 100 years, it became notorious as Oflag IVc or Offizier Lager IVc (Officer's Camp IVc), a prisoner-of-war camp for "incorrigible" allied officers who had repeatedly escaped from other camps, as well as volksfeindlich (those "treasonous against the people") during World War II.

References

History of Colditz Castle

• Exposé on Colditz Castle: Description of the Building from the Colditz tourism webpage. Retrieved March 19, 2005.
• What is special about Colditz Castle? from the Gesellschaft Schloss Colditz e.V. homepage Retrieved March 19, 2005.
• Colditzer Schlossgeschichte "Colditz Castle Story" from the same homepage. Retrieved March 19, 2005.
• Michael Booker, Collecting Colditz and Its Secrets, pp. 32.
• Eric J. Narveson, Prison Citadel, pp. 36-37.
• Patrick Reid, Colditz: The Full Story, pp. 124, 259-263.
• Georg Martin Schädlich, Tales from Colditz Castle, pp. 4-6, 27, 61, 63, 91-101.

Colditz as a POW camp

• Henry Chancellor, Colditz: The Definitive History: The Untold Story of World War II's Great Escapes London: Hodder & Stoughton, 2001.
• Reinhold Eggers, Colditz: The German Story Translated and edited by Howard Gee. London: Robert Hale, 1961.
• Flight to Freedom — The Colditz Glider — An excerpt from the Soaring magazine article on the Colditz Glider by Wade H. Nelson. Retrieved March 21, 2005.
• The Escapes from Colditz — Contains data on the escapees. Retrieved March 19, 2005.
• History of German Currency — A complete history of changes in German Currency. Retrieved April 5, 2005.

Colditz as a TV series

• COLDITZ — A review and brief description of the 1970s BBC television series.
• Colditz (TV series) Wikipedia's entry on the series.