Colditz The French Tunnel Escape Plan
How did French prisoners plan their escape from Colditz?
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45 mins
Discover how French prisoners at Colditz Castle secretly engineered a tunnel beneath the heavily guarded fortress during World War II. Explore the painstaking planning, hidden excavation, and ingenious methods they used to turn one of Nazi Germany’s most secure POW camps into the setting for a daring escape attempt.
Ep 1:
Inside the Escape-Proof Fortress
Meet Oflag 4C, the medieval fortress built to end escaping forever—instead it became a school for Europe's most relentless escape artists, from ghost prisoners to daring first breakouts.
Ep 2:
Tunnels, Disguises, and the Medium-Sized Man
As British ingenuity industrializes escape and the French dig a herculean tunnel toward freedom, a pint-sized RAF officer nailed inside a crate pulls off one of Colditz's boldest vanishing acts.
Ep 3:
Grenades, Gliders, and Freedom
A sewer standoff, a doomed escaper's fatal dash, and a secret glider built in an attic collide as liberation finally arrives at the castle the Nazis called impregnable.
Discussions (5)
Frank
Level 5 · 1 week agoBuilt a glider from bed slats? Respect.
Shirley
Level 8 · 1 week agoheard the French were TWO METERS away from escaping with 200 men and got caught... the audacity to almost pull that off 💀
Faron
Level 6 · 1 week agoBuilt a glider in an attic. Legends, all of them.
