Colditz

Colditz is a city in Saxony, Germany, located at the banks of the river Mulde. The city has a population of 5,506.

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The city is most famous because of Colditz Castle, which has been used as a workhouse, mental health institution, a POW camp during World War I and an internment camp during World War II.

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Mulde: The Mulde is a river in Saxony and Saxony-Anhalt, Germany. It is a tributary of the Elbe and 124 km in length....

Colditz Castle: Colditz Castle is a castle in the town of Colditz near Leipzig, Dresden, and Chemnitz in the state of Saxony in Germany (). 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...

Workhouse: Under the Poor Law systems of England and Wales, Scotland and Ireland, a workhouse was a place where people who were unable to support themselves, could go to live and work. The Oxford English Dictionary's earliest reference to a workhouse dates to 1652 in Exeter. There is, however, some written evi...