The Polish POWs were transferred to other camps on 1 June 1940 and Oflag II-D was established to house French officers from the Battle of France.

Conditions in this camp were deplorable, as the rules of the Third Geneva Convention were not observed for Soviet prisoners.

[1] When the offensive of the Soviet Red Army resumed in 1945, all inmates were marched westward on 28 January 1945.

After an eight-week 500 kilometres (310 mi) march in bitterly cold weather they reached Stalag X-B and Marlag und Milag Nord in Sandbostel.

A memorial to the French and Polish officers who died in Oflag II-D was erected at the site of the camp in the late 1990s (town of Opole); there is a French association of former prisoners and their descendants.