How U.S. POWs Used Playing Cards as an Escape Map in WWII
Tina Krohn Across the globe, World War II’s battles were powerfully visible and intense by the end of 1944. As Allied and Axis powers struggled to create two diametrically opposed futures, the most prominent of conflicts grabbed headlines and, later, filled history books. But other fights, ones just as important, were of a more clandestine nature. Colditz Castle, a Renaissance-style castle turned WWII prison located in the Saxony region of Germany, contained one of those key fights. The Germans placed the most high-profile WWII POWs—the ones difficult to control or prone to break out—...
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