tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1672155175393980448.post3628534271239718037..comments2024-01-22T05:10:11.938+11:00Comments on I am a liminal being: COLDITZ ESCAPE ACADEMYwandererhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08196036534397389760noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1672155175393980448.post-12628819854878485512011-07-19T01:48:17.598+10:002011-07-19T01:48:17.598+10:00Yes, the menace is gone. I didn't see the TV s...Yes, the menace is gone. I didn't see the TV series, and only just watched the (excellent and very British in the bestest sense) film the weekend just passed. Restoration is well underway and the past scrubbed off as it slips into Museum status and all that that entails. It smacks somewhat of overcompensation. And the guards et al are referred to in the third person as "The Germans" - 'those' Germans, unlike 'these' Germans running the museum shop etc. It was all a bit surreal, but understandable. Despite the absence of allied ghosts (there was only one death, a Brit - Scots I think - doing a runner), nonetheless inside remains quite evocative in parts.wandererhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08196036534397389760noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1672155175393980448.post-58692972367945766512011-07-18T22:28:08.197+10:002011-07-18T22:28:08.197+10:00That's the sort of take-you-there travel blogg...That's the sort of take-you-there travel blogging I love. Colditz looks actually rather picturesque...not as I remember it on the old TV series (recall Anthony Valentine with scar, rather appealing in a sadistic kind of way...they did all talk with funny Dzherman accents in those days, though, which perhaps wouldn't be countenanced now. But witness the confusion wrought by the mixed accents of the travestied - if sleek - TV Zen...)Davidhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14506881804082382739noreply@blogger.com