Guestbook entries from 2/2/99 to 18/2/00

Howard Owens - 02/18/00 10:17:38
My Email:gfiwf@orghro.com

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I am 84, and i was a prisioner at colditz from 1942 - 44, i didn't try to escape. i was a ghost All the best with your research Howard

Don - 02/17/00 21:51:59
My Email:donbruce@highfiber.com

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Really neat site that you have here. Looks like you walked around much of the outside of the castle after the tour, and took pictures. I did the same thing. Check out a few of my pics from my May 1998 visit if you wish. They are at a Yahoo Club called "Co ditz Castle Escapes POWs", where I have highlighted several escapes.

Pete - 02/17/00 19:53:22

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Escape from Colditz was a good program on C4. I think they should make more. This dite is very good, very informative. Well Done

James Elliott - 02/17/00 17:49:53

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I think Escape from Colditz was a good program and i hope you make some more. This website is good.

Lesley Shave - 02/17/00 17:40:57
My Email:lm_shave@yahoo.co.uk

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A great addition to the information available about this period of the war. My family and I have really enjoyed the channel 4 programme and your site has added to that enjoyment. Well Done

Seamus - 02/17/00 11:15:52
My Email:seamusck@yahoo.com

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Well done on the site, saw the documentary on channel four the other night, great stuff. It`s that never say die attitude that made good old blighty the great empire that it once was. well Done channel four and well done on this site Best of British.

Charlie - 02/17/00 08:17:18
My Email:cjca1@www.com

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Escape from Colditz was an excellent program and I think channel 4 should try tto come up with something similar

Alex Givens - 02/16/00 21:13:25
My Email:rich.givens@cableinet.co.uk

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Good Site. I watched the channel 4 Documentary and it disagrees with a few things. P.S MATTY GERMAN YOUR FAT. (MATTY GERMAN 9B MARICOURT H.S)

Newy Brothwell - 02/16/00 10:36:58
My Email:newy.brothwell@griffin-bacal.co.uk

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Like many others, after the BBC TV series in the 70's and Pat Reid's books I was hooked. Luckily in November 94 I managed to get to Colditz. I arrived by train via Leipzig and to walk through the town much as all the prisoners did, looking up at the dark fortress in the rain made me realise what a grim place it was, and is. It rained all day, but managed to walk freely around the Kommandantur area and even try the door that Pat Reid had so much trouble with in his own escape. At this time I think the Castle was being used as an old people's hospital so there were a few people about, cars parked etc. Not being able to go further I went back into town to the museum. They have many excellent exhibits cruciform lock pickers, cardboard holsters, rope and sacks from the French tunnel and the "Trap" used in the Airey Neave escape. It was at this point I found out that they do guided tours. So an hour or two later found me with the lady from the museum being personally escorted into the inner coutryard. Where there was lots of building work being done, and into the chapel. Then under the chapel where she showed me some stuff they'd recently found whilst re-roofing the old French/British quarters, lots if old tins, a camp bed and blanket and "Arthur" 2 the ex French and British radio set. I then went on a tour on my own down to the park and tiergarten and spent the rest of the day wandering in the drizzle and tryimg to locate various terraces, buttresses, windows etc. On the way out I paused to check the wicket gate that Neave and Lutyens used I think it was still there. It was a very moving day and that night I slept in the shadow of the castle wall in the local Youth Hostel for about £3. Your site brought back many memories of that day and is very well informed. It seems from your photos that it has been tidied up a lot

Georgia Wilson-Clarke - 02/16/00 10:27:57
My Email:georgiawc@hotmail.com

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My grandfather, Jack Best, was in Colditz from 1941-1945. He is an incredible man who has only good memories from his time in Colditz. The Channel 4 series and most notably the reconstruction of the glider has been a fantastic demonstration of the ingin ity of all the prisoners.

Stuart - 02/15/00 22:11:44

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Great site. Since watching the channel4 series I have become fascinated by Colditz. I'll be back!

Bob Hewson - 02/15/00 00:04:32
My Email:@compuserve.com

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Great to see your site. Having just seen a C4 programme on the glider we have decided to visit the castle sometime in March. looking for accomodation nearby, anyone help?

Nigel Parker - 02/13/00 21:41:24
My Email:nigeljparker@hotmail.com

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Well done, nice to see colour photos of the place I have read so much about since an early age. It is a lesson to us all; stick at it and virtually nothing will prove impossible.

C.E.Beckman - 02/13/00 16:16:23
My Email:cbeck@pisp.net

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Thank you, thank you. I have been searching for the title of the movie - re: the escape via glider. Your site provided the answer. Excellent for research and recovery.

Steve Page - 02/13/00 00:19:30
My Email:n/a

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Nice one! I read the Pat Reid book 'The Latter Days at Colditz' and found it enthralling and it's good to see a website for this famous German fortress. Keep up hte good work!

Ryan Wallace - 02/12/00 15:44:32
My Email:snakepit@talk21.com

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I think that this site is fabulous.I am very interested in Colditz and I am currently watching a TV series about it.I think you should mention one of the escapes that actually succeeded.

Valdez, Arnel - 02/12/00 05:22:36
My Email:valdez@sba.attmil.ne.jp

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Great graphics design and layout. Photograph image resolution is very clear. Your multimedia design is very well-created, informative, and interacive.

Richie Walsh - 02/11/00 22:43:51
My Email:a.walsh03@cableinet.co.uk

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id just like to say well done for making such an interesting website

tori - 02/11/00 19:51:56
My Email:smotofriends@hotmail.com

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i am sooo fasinated by colditz the escape storys are the most fantastic can any one tell me the tiles of some of the diarys of prisoners?

Damian Coyle - 02/10/00 21:34:55
My Email:Coyle_DG@hotmail.com

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Actor and writer, Damian Coyle:-I am writing a film script about Harry Elliot's escape from Colditz during 1944-45. I would be grateful to hear from any person with information about this subject/person. Perhaps you are interested in a similiar project? E ail me please with your comments. Regards, Damian.

Andy - 02/09/00 21:51:38
My Email:andy@andhal.supanet.com

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I was very impressed with this site, which offers a good deal of insight into the world of a WW2 prisoner. Well done!

Claire smit - 02/09/00 19:44:36

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Deborah Greenaway - 02/08/00 20:08:24
My Email:deborah@reviewing.co.uk

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I am doing a personal project on Colditz at school. I realize you will be very busy but please please could you send me some info on it because I have no books on it. My address is: 9 Drummond Place Lane Stirling Scotland FK8 2JF

JOE McBRIDE - 02/08/00 13:19:31
My Email:jmmcbride@mcbride6360.freeserve.co.uk

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I HAVE BEEN STUDYING BUSINESS FOR THE LAST FOUR YEARS AT ULSTER UNIVERSITY JORDANSTOWN.THE ORGANISATIONAL SKILLS DISPLAYED BY THE ALLIED PRISONERS BEAT ANYTHING I HAVE READ IN A TEXTBOOK.THEY SHOWED LEADERSHIP, PEOPLE MANAGEMENT AND LOGISTICAL SKILLS - NO FORGETTING INGENUITY WHEN REQUIRED. I HAVE ENJOYED THIS SITE VERY MUCH.

Peter Joyce - 02/08/00 00:55:50
My Email:docjoyce@gofree.indigo.ie

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Enjoyable. Thanks for making the effort

ron - 02/07/00 21:27:58

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GREAT STUFF. ENJOYED MY TOUR

davidmcdonald - 02/07/00 09:20:53
My Email:davidmcd@pop.ihug.co.nz

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very good page. makes one want to be captured.

Andy Mann - 02/06/00 20:10:00
My Email:andrewandwendy@netscapeonline.co.uk

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Brilliant! I shall be visiting this site again soon.

Barry Laker - 02/06/00 14:43:39
My Email:blaker6291@aol.com

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Great web site very informative and easy to use!

Andrew Sadler - 02/06/00 04:15:32
My Email:a.sadler@dtn.ntl.com

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Thank you for producing such an interesting site. Having read so many books about the castle and seen TV programs, lately the first of the new series about the escapes on Channel 4 tonight, I was particularly delighted by your interactive map.

Terry White - 02/05/00 23:23:31
My Email:t.white0@talk21.com

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fantastic

Gavin - 02/05/00 14:48:18
My Email:gavin.rivers@virgin.net

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A truly remarkable period of history & a fantastic web site. Thanks

Neil Stewart - 02/04/00 13:31:08
My Email:95cstewartn@dhsboys.plym.sch.uk

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An excelent site with some very good information. A very worthwile visit.

Pete - 02/02/00 22:16:56
My Email:peterm@helengj.freeserve.co.uk

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Enjoyed your site. Visited Colditz in 1993 and, having read so many books about it, I felt as though I knew my way around. 'Padre in Colditz' by J. Ellison Platt is a great read but I think it's out of print. Keep up the good work !

terry hall - 02/02/00 11:57:39
My Email:mcgurk123@yahoo.com

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excellent site.well done

Simmo - 02/02/00 10:00:22
My Email:andrew@colourflex.co.uk

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