SOFO Online Talks – The Road to Colditz
The Road to Colditz (First Broadcast: 7pm, 23 November 2021)
Donate By Text!
Text SOLDIERS followed by your donation amount to 70450 to give that amount (maximum donation per text: £20)
e.g. Send a text with the message SOLDIERS £5 to 70450 to make a donation of £5.00
Texts will cost the donation amount plus one standard network rate message, and you’ll be opting into hearing more from us. If you would like to donate but don't wish to hear more from us, please text SOLDIERSNOINFO followed by your donation amount instead.
The Road to Colditz
Online Talk and Live Q&A with Stuart Rolt and Tom Hamilton-Baillie.
Archived Video Available Now. First Streamed Live: 7pm, 23rd November 2021
The story of two prisoners of war, Tony Rolt and Jock Hamilton-Baillie, captured during the Fall of France in 1940 who, after several escape attempts, found themselves at Colditz - the infamous castle reserved for those prisoners identified as serial escapers, the most troublesome to the Nazis.
The two escapees’ sons, Stuart Rolt and Tom Hamilton-Baillie, tell of their fathers’ hair-raising wartime experiences as prisoners of war in Germany throughout World War 2. This online talk features an in-depth look at the planning of real escape attempts, the risks escapees ran, the penalties for failure, the privations they suffered, and what imprisonment at Colditz was really like.
If you enjoy this lecture, please consider a making donation to SOFO Museum.
Your donations not only allow us to continue to run online events like this, they also support us in preserving and presenting stories of people affected by conflict across the county at our Museum in Woodstock, Oxfordshire.
