Colditz The German Side Of The Story
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Colditz
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Author : Reinhold Eggers
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1961
Colditz written by Reinhold Eggers and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1961 with Prisoners of war categories.
German security officer describes escape attempts at the World War II German prisoner-of-war camp.
Colditz The German Side Of The Story
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Author : Anonymous
language : en
Publisher: Legare Street Press
Release Date : 2022-10-27
Colditz The German Side Of The Story written by Anonymous and has been published by Legare Street Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-10-27 with History categories.
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
The Colditz Story
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Author : Major P R Reid
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2014-12-04
The Colditz Story written by Major P R Reid and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-12-04 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Colditz was the last stop for prisoners of war during WWII. Those who persisted in escaping from other camps were sent to the impregnable fortress of Colditz Castle, situated on a rocky outcrop high above the River Mulde. Once within the walls of the castle, the Germans reasoned, escape was impossible. And yet many prisoners attempted escape and many succeeded Pat Reid was one of those men. Appointed 'Escape Officer' by his fellow inmates, he masterminded many of the attempts. From tunnelling, to hiding in rubbish sacks, disguising themselves as German officers and even leaping from the castle walls, nothing was too dangerous or foolhardy compared to imprisonment by the enemy. Reid's own escape, in 1942, was both one of the most simple and the most daring. First published in 1952, The Colditz Story is a classic escape story in the tradition of The Great Escape and The Wooden Horse.
Colditz
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Author : Reinhold Eggers
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1975
Colditz written by Reinhold Eggers and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1975 with categories.
Colditz
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Author : P R Reid
language : en
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
Release Date : 2011-08-19
Colditz written by P R Reid and has been published by Pan Macmillan this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-08-19 with History categories.
Daring escapes, ingenious plans and heroic feats are revealed in Major Pat Reid’s classic Second World War history of Colditz, the infamous prisoner-of-war camp. The great fortress was supposed to be escape-proof and Reid was one of only a few men who successfully broke out. Now, in Colditz: The Full Story, he draws on extensive research to evoke life in the German camp. He recounts how prisoners from the British Commonwealth, America, Belgium, France, Holland, Czechoslovakia, Germany and Poland were incarcerated in suffocating intimacy – and yet, amongst them, loyalty and generosity thrived. As did plots to escape, most of which were unsuccessful. From his own experience as one of the first captives to be imprisoned in the camp, he reveals the code systems between the War Office and Colditz; shows how he obtained information on Germany’s secret weapons; and investigates the existence of traitors and the situation of non-collaborators. This is a vivid and fascinating account that pays tribute to the bravery of the men living under enemy control who refused to give up the fight. ‘Highly recommended reading’ New York Times
Escape From Colditz
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Author : Patrick Robert Reid
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1953
Escape From Colditz written by Patrick Robert Reid and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1953 with Escapes categories.
A British officer relates his activities in and eventual escape from Colditz Castle, one of the best guarded German prisoner-of-war camps.
Tunnelling Into Colditz
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Author : Jim Rogers
language : en
Publisher: Robert Hale
Release Date : 1986
Tunnelling Into Colditz written by Jim Rogers and has been published by Robert Hale this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1986 with History categories.
Flight From Colditz
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Author : Anthony Hoskins
language : en
Publisher: Frontline Books
Release Date : 2016-05-31
Flight From Colditz written by Anthony Hoskins and has been published by Frontline Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-05-31 with History categories.
Colditz Castle was one of the most famous Prisoner of War camps of the Second World War. It was there that the Germans interred their most troublesome or important prisoners. Hundreds of ingenious escape attempts were made but the most ambitious of all was to build a glider and fly to freedom.Though the glider was built, the war ended before it could be used, and it was subsequently destroyed. Using the original plans and materials used by the prisoners, in March 2012 a replica of the glider was constructed in a bid to see if the escape attempt would have succeeded. The glider was then launched from the roof of the castle roof.Anthony Hoskins is the man who built, and helped launch, the glider. As well as examining the story behind the building of the original glider, he details the construction of the replica and the nail-biting excitement as the Colditz Cock finally took to the skies. Packed with photos of the glider and its flight over Colditz, this is the inside story of the recreation of one of the most intriguing episodes of the Second World War.
Commando To Colditz
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Author : Peter Stanley
language : en
Publisher: Allen & Unwin
Release Date : 2009-10-01
Commando To Colditz written by Peter Stanley and has been published by Allen & Unwin this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-10-01 with History categories.
A compelling, riveting read, Commando to Colditz is an unusual — perhaps unique — war story. It is centred around a most unusual war hero: Michael 'Micky' Burn, soldier, poet and novelist, whose journey from fascist follower, to commander of Six Troop, to Commando, to prisoner (and communist lecturer) in the notorious prison of Colditz forms the focal point of this powerful narrative. In 1942 Micky led his commando troop of 28 men on one of the most daring raids of the Second World War, the assault on the French port of St Nazaire. As a result of this 'night of fire and death', fourteen of Micky's men were killed; seven, including Burn, were captured. Micky's bond with his soldiers is at the story's heart. Before the raid, he had asked his parents to write to his men's families if the worst should happen; the result was the creation of a rich and moving archive of letters between these grieving or anxious families, letters that illuminate the lives and deaths of a small but close-knit group of British soldiers and those who loved them.
The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Encyclopedia Of Camps And Ghettos 1933 1945 Volume Iv
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Author : Geoffrey P. Megargee
language : en
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Release Date : 2022-04-26
The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Encyclopedia Of Camps And Ghettos 1933 1945 Volume Iv written by Geoffrey P. Megargee and has been published by Indiana University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-04-26 with History categories.
The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Encyclopedia of Camps and Ghettos, 1933–1945, Volume IV aims to provide as much basic information as possible about individual camps and other detention facilities. Why were they established? Who ran them? What kinds of prisoners did they hold? What kinds of work did the prisoners do, and for whom? What were the conditions like? The entries detail the sources from which the authors drew their material, so future scholars can expand upon the work. Finally, and perhaps most important, this is a work of memorialization: it preserves the histories of places where people suffered and died. Volume IV examines an under-researched segment of the larger Nazi incarceration system: camps and other detention facilities under the direct control of the German military, the Wehrmacht. These include prisoner of war (POW) camps (including camps for enlisted men, camps for officers, camps for naval personnel and airmen, and transit camps), civilian internment and labor camps, work camps for Tunisian Jews, brothels in which women were forced to have sex with soldiers, and prisons and penal camps for Wehrmacht personnel. Most of these sites have not been described in detail in the existing historical literature, and a substantial number of them have never been documented at all. The volume also includes an introduction to the German prisoner of war camp system and its evolution, introductions to each of the various types of camps operated by the Wehrmacht, and entries devoted to each individual camp, representing the most comprehensive documentation to date of the Wehrmacht camp system. Within the entries, the volume draws upon German military documents, eyewitness and survivor testimony, and postwar investigations to describe the experiences of prisoners of war and civilian prisoners held captive by the Wehrmacht. Of particular note is the detailed documentation of the Wehrmacht's crimes against Soviet prisoners of war, which have largely been neglected in the English-language literature up to this point, despite the fact that more than three million Soviet prisoners died in German captivity. The volume also provides substantial coverage of the diverse range of conditions encountered by other Allied prisoners of war, illustrating both the substantial privations faced by all prisoners of war and the stark contrast between the Germans' treatment of Soviet prisoners and those of other nationalities. The volume also details the significant involvement of the Wehrmacht in crimes against the civilian populations of occupied Europe and North Africa. As a result, this volume not only brings to light many detention sites whose existence has been little known, but also advances the decades-old process of dismantling the myth of the "clean Wehrmacht," according to which the German military had nothing to do with the Holocaust and the Nazi regime's other crimes.