Reinhold Eggers, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Reinhold Eggers

German Army officer

Date of Birth: 26-Apr-1890

Place of Birth: Roklum, Lower Saxony, Germany

Date of Death: 01-Jan-1974

Profession: writer, military officer, pedagogue, soldier

Nationality: Germany

Zodiac Sign: Taurus

Reinhold Eggers (1890–1974) was the security officer at Oflag IV-C from November 1940 until April 1945, promoted to chief of security in 1944.
The Nova television programme Nazi Prison Escape, a shortened cut of a British documentary series, was based on his books about Colditz.
He spent 10 years in Russian-ordered imprisonment following the war, and was released in 1955.