ENG: Between 1870–71the first group of about 6,000 French soldiers were resettled to Lamsdorf as the first Prisoners-of-War here. During the Great War (1914–18) one of the largest German PoW camps functioned in the village (ca. 90,000 soldiers of the Entente passed through the camp gates).
During WW2 the largest complexes of PoW camps in Europe between was established and operated in Lamsdorf. One complex part was commonly labeled Russenlager (Russian camp). Its official name was Stalag 318 / VIII F (344). The other one, where British Army soldiers were kept, was Stalag VIII B (344), – commonly called Britenlager (British camp). Historians estimate that in the period between 1939 and 1945 around 300,000 soldiers were held on the outskirts of Lamsdorf. Most of them were Soviet, Polish, and British PoWs.
In 1945-46 forced-labor camp was then established for ca. 5,000 German civilian population before their relocation into post-war Germany.
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