TThe Colditz myth has remained unchanged and undisputed for over 70 years: Prisoners of war, with mustaches firmly on stiff upper lips, brave the Nazis through tunnels from a grim Gothic castle on a German hilltop, fighting the war by other means. But like all legends, that story contains only part of the truth. Colditz’s soldier-prisoners were brave, resilient, and amazingly imaginative in the ways they attempted to escape the high-security camp of the Third Reich’s toughest prisoners. (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); But life in Colditz was about more than escape, just as the prisoners were more complicated and...