Patrick Robert Reid, was a British Army officer and author of history. As a British prisoner of war during the Second World War, he was held captive at Colditz Castle when it was designated Oflag IV-C. Reid was one of the few to escape from Colditz, crossing the border into neutral Switzerland in late 1942.
The German Kommandantur in 2011.
Colditz Castle (1945)
Colditz Castle is a Renaissance castle in the town of Colditz near Leipzig, Dresden and Chemnitz in the state of Saxony in Germany. The castle is between the towns of Hartha and Grimma on a hill spur over the river Zwickauer Mulde, a tributary of the River Elbe. It had the first wildlife park in Germany when, during 1523, the castle park was converted into one of the largest menageries in Europe.
Castle Colditz in 2011
Colditz Castle 1828 by Ernst Ferdinand Oehme, Albertinum, Dresden
Coat of arms of Augustus of Saxony and his wife Anne of Denmark over the gate to the outer courtyard
The mannerist portal (rhyolitic tuff) of the church house carved by Andreas Walther II during 1584