Colditz : Pat Reid's escape
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- Опубліковано 22 гру 2010
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My visit to Coldtiz castle took place on 7 November 2010, the following week would have been Pat's 100th birthday. This film shows the route of his escape - and is similar to that shown in the fictional Colditz series shown on the BBC from 1972 - 4.
Patrick Robert Reid, MBE, MC (13 November 1910 -- 22 May 1990) was a British Army officer and historical author of non-fiction.
Reid was educated at Clongowes Wood College and Wimbledon College, and graduated from King's College London with a BSc in 1932. He was commissioned into the Royal Army Service Corps (Supplementary Reserve) in 1935 and promoted Lieutenant in 1938.
A British Prisoner of War, he was held captive at Colditz Castle when it was designated Oflag IV-C. One of the 'Laufen Six', Reid arrived at Colditz in November 1940. Reid was initially the escape officer but he gave this up in order to escape himself on 14 October 1942. He ended the war as a Captain. Reid died on May 22, 1990 aged 79.
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Thanks for sharing this
Very cool to see the exact place where they escaped. I really want to visit Colditz one day myself.
In the summer it is very nice in that area so that would be the time to go!
one of the best places i've been to related to WW2,going back again in July
I am just finishing the book now and I think it’s just great !
Very interesting vid. Thanks
Almost exactly 5 years ago-!!!
Royal Canadian Engineers Lieutenant William Anderson MILLAR (a POW from the Dieppe Raid) escaped from Colditz in February 1944....out a window onto the inner courtyard at night and hid under a German truck which was then driven out of the castle during an air raid......his coat was found on a street in the town of Colditz but he successfully escaped.....he was recaptured in Czechoslovakia seven days later and taken to an German Army Stalag in occupied Poland by German police and put into the camps jail. Three days later he was taken out of the jail in handcuffs by the Gestapo, and delivered under guard to the Austrian Mauthausen concentration camp and subjected to be shot by the camp SS staff under a Secret State Security Police (SD) order...the "Kugel Erlass" (Bullet Decree),
which ordered that all recaptured escaped Allied POWs were to be removed from German military custody and the protection of the Geneva Convention and turned over to the Gestapo being re-designated as "political enemies of the third reich".....Lieutenant MILLAR was thus murdered by the SS, his body cremated and its ashes scattered.....thus he has no known grave......The Chief of the German Security Service, the SD/Gestapo, Ernst Kaltenbrunner was charged with the war crimes of ordering the unlawful execution of Prisoners of War at the Nuremburg War Crimes Tribunal, found guilty and hung.....his body was cremated in a concentration camp crematoria and its ashes scattered.....Lieutenant MILLAR, RCE, MID, is remembered and his service and POW camp five escapes is honoured.
Thanks Scott, I will add that story to my history page on facebook : facebook.com/historysite/
The colditz tv series was shot at a castle in scotland not at the real colditz castle. At the time the series was made the russians were using colditz as a prison and then later as a hospital.
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Lucky lad! I loved his book
Was Steph your guide? She did a great job when I went there, and it was pouring with rain as well
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