Stalag Lamsdorf (Stalag VIII B)
In September 1939, at Lamsdorf (Łambinowice) in Silesia, the Wehrmacht set up a POW camp known as Stalag VIII, initially for Polish and British POWs, and later including Russians as well. By the time of its evacuation in January 1945, around 300,000 POWs had passed through the camp. Some prisoners of war were used as forced laborers for I.G. Auschwitz in the E715 camp.