Stalag VIII-C was a German World War II prisoner-of-war camp, near Sagan, Lower Silesia (now Żagań, Poland).

It was adjacent to the famous Stalag Luft III, and was built at the beginning of World War II, occupying 48 ha (120 acres).

Polish, French, Belgian, British, Canadian, Greek, Yugoslav, Soviet, Australian, New Zealand, South African, Italian, Senegalese, Algerian, Moroccan and Slovak.

The camp was established in September 1939 to house some 5,000 Polish prisoners from the German invasion of Poland, which started World War II.

[1] The first captives initially slept in the open air and then in tents, the food was poor, and diseases were rampant, resulting in many deaths.

[1] In a ruthless breach of the Third Geneva Convention most of these prisoners were deprived of their POW status in June 1940 and transferred to labor camps.

[4] Until mid-1944, the nutrition of Western POWs was tolerable, as shortages were compensated by Red Cross parcels, but the situation worsened thereafter, causing malnutrition and diseases.