Visitors to a renovated Colditz Castle are given an interactive tablet device offering augmented reality and the opportunity to build an imaginary escape tunnel
‘There must be a way out!” hissed the man with the moustache.
“Shh!” whispered his friend, who was also British. “God knows I’m as keen to see Blighty again as you. But be careful!”
Whereupon they both fell silent, as a Colditz guard walked slowly past.
“It’s fine,” muttered the man with the moustache. “He probably doesn’t even speak English.”
His friend wasn’t sure. A lot of Germans did.
“I just feel,” said the first Brit, “like we’ve been trapped in here forever. We must escape.”
“We could dig a tunnel?” suggested his friend.
“Mad,” he said. “Concrete floors. And it would take too long. And we’d have to fashion a spade.”
“Once,” said his friend, “I heard that somebody vaulted the fence.”
“Not with
