DURCHGANGSLAGER (DULAG) VIII B / DULAG LAMSDORF
The Wehrmacht created Dulag VIII B on August 26, 1939, in Lamsdorf (today Łambinowice, Poland), in Defense District (Wehrkreis) VIII (map 4e). The camp was also commonly known as Dulag Lamsdorf. On October 4, 1939, the Germans converted the camp into Stalag VIII B.1 The camp was subordinate to the Commander of Prisoners of War in Defense District VIII (Kommandeur der Kriegsgefangenen im Wehrkreis VIII).
Dulag VIII B held Polish prisoners of war. Specific information about conditions in the camp is unavailable, but conditions in such camps were generally poor, with inadequate shelter and food supplies. Most of the prisoners were immediately sent to forced labor, mainly agricultural labor.
SOURCES
Primary source material about Dulag VIII B is located in BA-MA (RH 49), WASt, and WAP-W.
Additional information about Dulag VIII B can be found in the following publications: Gianfranco Mattiello and Wolfgang Vogt, Deutsche Kriegsgefangenen- und Internierten-Einrichtungen 1939–1945. Handbuch und Katalog: Lagergeschichte und Lagerzensurstempel, vol. 2 (Koblenz: self-published, 1987), p. 68; Rüdiger Overmans, “Die Kriegsgefangenenpolitik des Deutschen Reiches 1939 bis 1945,” Das Deutsche Reich und der Zweite Weltkrieg, vol. IX/2, (Stuttgart: Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, 2005), pp. 729–875; Juliusz Pollack, Jeńcy polscy w hitlerowskiej niewoli (Warsaw: MON, 1986); and Stanisław Senft and Horst Więcek, Obozy jenieckie na obszarze śląskiego okręgu Wehrmachtu 1939–1945 (Wrocław: Zakład Narodowy im. Ossolińskich, 1972).
NOTES
1. Mattiello and Vogt, Deutsche Kriegsgefangenen- und Internierten-Einrichtungen, p. 68.
