Raworths Harrogate Literature Festival presents:

Out of Colditz with David Lascelles

Friday 23 October 2026

Starts: 6:30pm

Duration: 1 hour

The Crown Hotel, Harrogate

Tickets £ 20.00

Friends Presale

What could lead one of the Nazi regime’s most senior figures to save the life of a British prisoner of war?

Join David Lascelles as he uncovers the extraordinary true story of Gottlob Berger, whose unexpected intervention spared the life of Lascelles’s own father during the final days of the Second World War, as told in his book Out of Colditz: My Father, the POW and the Nazi Who Controlled His Fate.

Drawing on meticulous historical research and his own family’s remarkable story, Lascelles explores one of the Second World War’s most extraordinary moral paradoxes, revealing a compelling account of survival, courage and the unexpected choices made in humanity’s darkest hour.

Find out more about the book here.

Kindly sponsored by Raworths Solicitors.

Friends Presale

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