It was located at the northern end of a Germany Army training area at Lamsdorf, Silesia, (now Łambinowice, Poland) just to the north of Stalag VIII-B.

[3] Physical and sanitary conditions were very poor, and of the estimated 200,000 Soviet prisoners who passed through the camp, about 40,000 died of starvation, mistreatment and disease.

[3] In late January 1945 the camp was evacuated, and the POWs forced to march westward away from the advancing Soviets.

The sick were left behind, and most were dead by the time that detachments of the Red Army reached the camp on 17 March 1945.

[3] Most of the camp has been demolished, but a fenced area with a reconstructed watch tower and hut contains an exhibition dedicated to the Soviet POWs.