The incredible story of a secret glider built for escape by POWs in Colditz Castle. #history #WWII #escape #colditz | World Lens

Yesterday, on its way to Ukraine, the convoy visited Colditz Castle in Germany, once a prison for Allied soldiers during WWII, and now also home to a friendly cat 🐱🫶 The group learned about the men who were captured there and explored the rooms where they spent their days in captivity. The chapel, over 500 years old, was the site of several escape tunnels dug by prisoners determined to break free. Colditz was notorious for housing POWs who had already escaped from other camps, guarded under th

During World War II, inside Germanys supposedly escapeproof Colditz Castle, Allied prisoners of war embarked on one of the most remarkable engineering projects known. They built a two man glider called Colditz Cock under the guidance of British officers Bill Goldfinch and Jack Best. Working in a secret attic workshop for nearly a year, they fashioned wing spars from floorboards, ribs from bed slats, and sealing paste from boiled millet breakfast porridge. In April 1945, as they prepared for esca

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