TIL British officers imprisoned in Colditz castle, an 'escape-proof' Nazi POW camp, tried to escape by tunneling out. They emerged instead in a German colonel's wine cellar, where they proceeded to drink 137 bottles of wine, fill them with urine, and place them back on the shelves.

http://www.pilcrowmagazine.com/blog/colditz



Submitted February 18, 2015 at 05:00AM by syruptrap http://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/2w90if/til_british_officers_imprisoned_in_colditz_castle/