Thanks for the photographic tour Ade. I'd love to visit Germany some day.........!
Thanks for the photographic tour Ade. I'd love to visit Germany some day.........!
Regards,
Steve.
We now head into the museum where the exhibits are just outstanding.
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The work documents are complete fakes made by hand by the POW's.
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The looming walls and stark interior comes over great in the pics.
Gives a good impression of how constricting the castle is.
But human ingenuity really know no bounds; stick a bunch of the most hardcore escape kings in a fortified castle with strong walls and many gates with the expectation, that this will mean the end to all escape attempts.
Only to find that the exact opposite is the case.
A place I will visit one day!! Many thanks for your posts Ade, the Colditz museum looks amazing
These are great photos Ade! It just makes me want to get over there as soon as I can, it is definitely something I want to aim at doing.
Next time you have a birthday head over to my place, I have plenty of crap you can do around here!
Cheers for the pics, they are fantastic mate!
The gates of hell were opened and we accepted the invitation to enter" 26/880 Lance Sgt, Edward Dyke. 26th Bn Northumberland Fusiliers , ( 3rd Tyneside Irish )
1st July 1916
Thought shall be the harder , heart the keener,
Courage the greater as our strength faileth.
Here lies our leader ,in the dust of his greatness.
Who leaves him now , be damned forever.
We who are old now shall not leave this Battle,
But lie at his feet , in the dust with our leader
House Carles at the Battle of Hastings
Here we have the items which drew me back to the same cabinet again and again.
The cloth used was most likely from Dutch uniforms.
Bear in mind while some items are fairly crude, like the cardboard rifle, some of this was only designed to pass muster at night.
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Amazing what they did with the use of the most simple items.
I stand by my statement above about human ingenuity
More from Colditz. I just could not get enough of the place...
The sewing machine was made by Lieut J.R.E. Hamilton Baillie R.E. The Guards allowed it's use to make costumes for the camp theatre productions. But it got used for other "productions".
BTW the odd metal tubes seen at the bottom left of the pics is a still for making booze!
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