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In autumn 1944, he joined a group of prisoners as they shuffled to the exercise enclosure. The guards took up their positions around the wire fence, 8 ft high and topped with barbed wire. One of the nastier traditions of the British public school was the ritual humiliation of ‘new bugs’ by older boys, and this too had its counterpart in Colditz. James Haskell looks tense as he leaves podcast recording where he made vile 'jokes' about 9/11 and his sex life with ex Chloe Madeley Beauty queen Athenna Crosby claims she was spotted having lunch with 'close friend' Matthew Perry a day before his deathBut such diversions were short-lived. There was seldom anything new to talk about, so even the most interesting individuals became crashing bores. Lights out, at 9.30pm, came as ‘a blessed relief, for it meant the end of another wasted and useless day’. EXCLUSIVE - Leonardo DiCaprio, 48, is officially off the market! Actor is 'crazy about' 25-year-old... Liam Hemsworth's stunning girlfriend Gabriella Brooks looks chic as she leads arrivals alongside Isabel Lucas at Aje's 15th Anniversary party

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Horrific video shows subway carriage chanting 'F*** the Jews, long live Palestine, we are Nazis and proud'... The officers had a British “boarding school mentality.” They tried to recreate the traditions of Eton and other private schools coopting behaviors such as bullying, enslaving individuals on the lower rung of society, “goon-baiting” Germans, and diverse types of entertainment. Those who did not attend a boarding school were rarely included. A few years earlier, while Gordievsky was head of the KGB rezidentura (spy hub) in the Soviet embassy in London, Macintyre recalls, there was the “extraordinary moment when Mikhail Gorbachev, the great new kind of grand hope of the Politburo, arrives in London, and Oleg is briefing both sides. The KGB resident designate is writing a memo for Gorbachev about what he should say to Thatcher but the memo has been dictated by MI6, and you’ve also got him advising MI6 how Gorbachev responds.”

Yet that tale contains only a part of the truth. Yes, the story of Colditz is one of the indomitable human spirit, but it is also one of bullying, boredom, insanity, tragedy and farce. Princess Olympia of Greece is all smiles as she's spotted leaving her London home with TikTok chef Thomas Straker