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The path to the park offered many opportunities
for escape.
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Escaping Colditz
6: June 1941
Not long after Bouley's "womanly" escape attempt (see #5), two
prisoners went missing after the daily stroll in the park. The Colditz security
apparatus swung into action: Local police headquarters, railway stations, and
foresters were notified, and guards searched the surrounding landscape on
bicycle and foot. But while examining the park walk with a fine-toothed comb,
one German suddenly remembered an air-raid shelter situated in an old house
along the park path. The Germans found the door unlocked—and inside were
Captain Harry Elliot and Captain Janek Lados (see #7). The Germans determined
(rightly) that this must have been the way Le Ray (see #1) and at least one
other French officer had escaped.
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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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