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    Colditz Castle (or Schloss Colditz in German) is a Renaissance castle in the town of Colditz near Leipzig, Dresden and Chemnitz in the state of Saxony...
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    Waldschänke Moritzburg, Europa-Jugendherberge Schloss Colditz, Pension Zur Königlichen Ausspanne, Schloss Hotel Dresden-Pillnitz and Schlosshotel Gaußig...
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    Dominic Bruce (category British escapees from Colditz Castle)
    attempts to escape from Colditz Castle, a castle that housed prisoners of war "deemed incorrigible". Famed for his time in Colditz, Bruce also escaped from...
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    name), and further north through Glauchau, Rochlitz and Colditz. A few kilometers north of Colditz, the Zwickauer Mulde is joined by the Freiberger Mulde...
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  • Vincent Parker (category Prisoners of war held at Colditz Castle)
    card sharp, and one of the four outstanding lock pickers in the Schloss. The Colditz literature highlights many escape attempts used Parker's lock picking...
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  • Karlsfried Castle, Lückendorf Landeskrone Schloss Muskau, Bad Muskau Burg- und Klosteranlage Oybin, Oybin Colditz Castle, near Dresden Dornreichenbach Castle...
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    School by German-Jewish educator Kurt Hahn based on the model of Schule Schloss Salem, that he had founded in Germany in 1919. Gordonstoun has an enrolment...
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    the Thirty Years' War. In 1680 she was widowed and retired to Freiberg-Colditz. She died in Dresden in 1687. She had three children: Sibylle Marie (Dresden...
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    Wardle in August 1940, but he was recaptured and sent to Oflag IV-C at Colditz Castle. On the 21 October 1940 the POW Eric Foster was one of twenty-six...
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    Laufen Castle (German: Schloss Laufen) is a square-shaped castle overlooking the Salzach river that was built for the Archbishop of Salzburg in the 15th...
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