Post by kanowarrior on Apr 10, 2012 12:33:44 GMT -5
Germany: Former Nazi prison offers guests WWII experience
Once a Nazi POW camp, Colditz hotel provides guests with three-hour tour of tunnels used by prisoners in escape attempts
Ynet Published: 04.10.12, 09:56 / Israel News
A hotel in southern Germany offers guests a World War II experience for just 20 a night.
Once a Nazi POW camp, the site has been converted into a hotel which provides guests with meals served in the canteen used by wartime staff, Britain's The Sun reported.
Guests get a three-hour tour of tunnels and hidden rooms used by POWs in ingenious escape attempts.
According to The Sun, Birmingham-based battlefield tour specialists the War Research Society have won the right to offer the “prisoner experience."
“The accommodation is Spartan but the idea is to give people an idea of what it was like to be there as a POW," official Alex Bulloch said.
“Colditz is the trip of a lifetime for anyone interested in this aspect of the war. To stay under the same roof as the Allied officers is incredible.”
For 100 years Colditz served as a shelter for the poor as well as a mental institution. During World War II, it housed troublesome British officers who had already made repeated breakout bids from prison camps.
More than 30 prisoners escaped from Colditz before US troops came to the rescue in 1945, according to The Sun.
Once a Nazi POW camp, Colditz hotel provides guests with three-hour tour of tunnels used by prisoners in escape attempts
Ynet Published: 04.10.12, 09:56 / Israel News
A hotel in southern Germany offers guests a World War II experience for just 20 a night.
Once a Nazi POW camp, the site has been converted into a hotel which provides guests with meals served in the canteen used by wartime staff, Britain's The Sun reported.
Guests get a three-hour tour of tunnels and hidden rooms used by POWs in ingenious escape attempts.
According to The Sun, Birmingham-based battlefield tour specialists the War Research Society have won the right to offer the “prisoner experience."
“The accommodation is Spartan but the idea is to give people an idea of what it was like to be there as a POW," official Alex Bulloch said.
“Colditz is the trip of a lifetime for anyone interested in this aspect of the war. To stay under the same roof as the Allied officers is incredible.”
For 100 years Colditz served as a shelter for the poor as well as a mental institution. During World War II, it housed troublesome British officers who had already made repeated breakout bids from prison camps.
More than 30 prisoners escaped from Colditz before US troops came to the rescue in 1945, according to The Sun.
