Stalag V111

Today we travelled with friends to Lamsdorf (Lambinowice) in Poland to see the POW camp where their father had spent over 4 years in captivity.

A soldier in the 51st Highland Division, he had been captured by the Germans on June 12, 1940 at St Valery en Caux, on the Normandy coast, whilst engaged in rearguard fighting during the retreat to Dunkirk.

He and his companions were marched across Europe to Poland and spent the rest of the war doing forced labour in the forests and coal-mines. These are the eery remains of Stalag V111B, the huge POW camp where the allied prisoners were incarcerated.