Stalag I-F was a German World War II prisoner-of-war camp located just north of the city of Suwałki in German-occupied Poland.
Construction of the camp began in April 1941, before the attack on the Soviet Union, to accommodate the expected POWs.
[2] Covering 50 hectares (120 acres) the camp contained a kitchen, bakery, latrines and bathhouse, and was surrounded by a double barbed-wire fence with five gates and four guard towers (later increased to nine).
[1] More than 100,000 prisoners, mostly Russian, passed through Stalag I-F, of whom over 50,000 died,[1] mostly from malnutrition, exposure and typhus.
[3] Even Italian Royal Army soldiers captured by the Germans after 1943, September 8. were imprisoned in this camp.