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The hidden air shaft lies roughly in the middle of
this photograph taken from the German yard.
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Escaping Colditz
9: July 28, 1941
Dressed as German civilians, two French officers slid 40 feet
down a rope lowered into an airshaft that led from the prisoner's theater four
stories up to the German kitchen on the ground floor. They walked out into the
German yard and on to the park gate, where the guard let them through. But the
prison laundryman, who had idly watched them go, thought it odd he didn't
recognize them. Mulling it over for an hour, he finally informed the security
officer, who went after them with dogs and guards on bicycles. Lieuts. A.
Thibaud and R. Perrin were caught about six miles away.
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- First escape
April 12, 1941
- Straw mattresses
May 8, 1941
- Locked cells
Mid-May 1941
- Canteen tunnel
May 1941
- German woman
June 1941
- Air-raid shelter
June 1941
- Hacksaw
June 1941
- Over the wall
July 2, 1941
- Air shaft
July 28, 1941
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- Lavatory
July 31, 1941
- Manhole
Late summer, 1941
- Dummies
December 1941
- German officers
December 1941
- Main gate
January 6, 1942
- Town dump
March 1942
- Wooden crate
September 7, 1942
- Mussolini's office
September 9, 1942
- Headquarters building
October 15, 1942
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- Willi the electrician
December 1942
- "Maddest attempt"
May 11, 1943
- Franz Josef
September 2, 1943
- Cellar house
January 19, 1944
- Rubbish heap
May 2, 1944
- Greatest escaper
September 25, 1944
- Glider
April 1945
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