LAMSDORF
“I’d like to know if the British nation have any idea about how we are treated in Germany. Most of us are working for free in mines, the working day is long, and the living conditions as bad as could be, which often makes us fall ill… We are often punished; for what I can never figure out. The Nazis’ brutality and slavery must come to an end.”
These are the words of Fred Sharratt, a soldier and one of 48,000 British POWs who, after being captured by the Nazis, was imprisoned in a remote part of eastern Germany called Lamsdorf (now Łambinowice, Poland). Stalag VIIIB (344), as it was also known, was the largest camp for British POWs during the war – one in three soldiers wearing a
