Colditz: Prisoners of the Castle

Aerial view of Colditz (PHOTO: SLUB Dresden Deutsche Fotothek Junkers Luftbild)

Other ranks, private soldiers who worked as servants for the officer POWs. Solly Goldman is second from right (PHOTO: Staatliche Schlösser, Burgen und Gärten Sachsen gGmbH, Schloss Colditz)

Airey Neave in his fake German uniform (PHOTO: Private collection)

Ballet Nonsense, Christmas 1941. Neave in mortarboard and gown back row, four from left Mazumdar in Indian clothing back row, fifth from right Jimmy Yul (PHOTO: Private collection)

Giles Romilly, the communist nephew of Winston Churchill and the first of the Prominente, or special prisoners (PHOTO: Private collection)

Hauptmann Reinhold Eggers, the chief German chronicler of Colditz civilized, punctilious and anglophile (PHOTO: Private collection)

Escape attempt disguised as a laundry transport (PHOTO: Staatliche Schlösser, Burgen und Gärten Sachsen gGmbH, Schloss Colditz)

Walnut compass (PHOTO: Staatliche Schlösser, Burgen und Gärten Sachsen gGmbH, Schloss Colditz)

Julius Green dentist, gourmand, coding expert and secret agent (PHOTO: Private collection)

Yard showing Pat Reid's route of Oct 1942 (PHOTO: Private collection)

Inner Courtyard (PHOTO: Colditz Museum)

Bader, the castle's most famous and obstreperous inmate, with his long-suffering batman, Alex Ross, at his feet (PHOTO: Australian War Memorial)

Volleyball in the inner courtyard (PHOTO: Australian War Memorial)