Dominic Bruce snow had fell. They observed that this was not escaping weather and because of the conditions they had no option but to wait. This wait, sadly for Bruce and Tunstall, prolonged. Whilst waiting for the weather conditions to improve, Bruce and Tunstall were ordered to pack their belongings... and they were then sent to Colditz. A year later, inside Colditz, former Warburg prisoner Douglas Bader, explained the escape tools they left inside Warburg had been successfully used by another prisoner. Bruce arrived in Colditz Castle, known as officer prisoner-of-war camp Oflag IV-C, on 16 March 1942. Colditz was near Leipzig
Colditz in Colditz by Thomsberger & Hermann. In the Nazi era, Colditz Castle was temporarily used as a concentration camp by the SA and as a "Reichsarbeitsdienst" camp. During the Second World War, the town did not suffer any damage. In 1940, the town became the military district IV headquarters for personnel guarding an "Oflag" POW camp for officers, when Oflag IV-C was established in the castle. It became widely known after the war, for both its notable inmates ("Prominente"), such as Giles Romilly or George Lascelles, and several escape attempts. On 14April 1945, the U.S. Army entered the town and