Cover of the book Prisoners of the Castle by Ben Macintyre, subtitled "An epic story of survival and escape from Colditz the Nazis' fortress prison" The cover is red and black and shows five soldiers with a barbed wire accent down the side of the cover.

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   Jessamyn (jessamyn@glammr.us)'s status on Wednesday, 01-Jul-2026 06:32:39 JST Jessamyn

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   Book 34: Prisoners of the Castle. I usually have a bright line "no Nazis" in the books I read but a friend really enjoyed this and suggested it. It's the story of a POW camp in a castle in what became East Germany. The people running the camp played by the Geneva Convention. The people in the camp tried to escape ALL the time, and often succeeded. The war is in the background and the Nazis don't show up until the very end. I did not know this bit of WWII history and it was a good read.