Editing Colditz (section)

==Wartime dramatisations==
The story of the wartime prisoners at [[Oflag IV-C]] was documented by [[Pat Reid|Patrick Robert ("Pat") Reid]] in his books ''The Colditz Story'' and ''The Latter Days At Colditz'', and the former was used as the basis for a 1955 film directed by [[Guy Hamilton]]. In the early 1970s the BBC broadcast a series, ''[[Colditz (1972 TV series)|Colditz]]'', created by [[Brian Degas]] and [[Gerard Glaister]], with Reid as technical advisor. 
In 1973 the TV comedy series [[The Two Ronnies]] shot a sketch "Colditz" featuring [[Ronnie Corbett]] in the role of the new detainee and [[Ronnie Barker]] as camp commandant.
Beginning in 1973 a board game [[Escape from Colditz]] was marketed by [[Parker Brothers]], followed by a computer game in 1991.