Colditz

British

/ ˈkəʊldɪts /

noun

a town in E Germany, on the River Mulde: during World War II its castle was used as a top-security camp for Allied prisoners of war; many daring escape attempts, some successful, were made

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Colditz and Jiang also are working toward founding a start-up company around this technology.

From Science Daily • Dec. 5, 2024

Jiang and Colditz have patents pending related to this work, predicting disease risk using radiomic images.

From Science Daily • Dec. 5, 2024

Aultmore was later used as World War Two convalescent hospital and a finishing school owned by a New Zealand-born spy who survived imprisonment in Colditz.

From BBC • Dec. 7, 2023

But in January 1943, he was finally captured by the enemy and spent most of the rest of the war in Italian or German prisoner-of-war camps, including Colditz.

From BBC • Nov. 26, 2022

Baron Colditz, the Chancellor, fell ill of a carbuncle in his foot, and died.

From A History of the Moravian Church by Hutton, Joseph Edmund

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