Today the site is a museum dedicated to the memory of the prisoners who were held there. Lamsdorf was one of the largest complexes of POW camps run by the Wehrmacht comprising: Stalag VIII B, Stalag 318/VIII F and Stalag 344. It is estimated that the camps saw about 300 thousand POWs of different nationalities.
As early as during the Franco-Prussian War (1870-1871) a camp for about three thousand French POWs was set up on the site, which had previously been an artillery range. During World War I about Ninety Thousand POWs - soldiers of the Entante - were interned in Lamsdorf.
The camps were liberated by the Red Army on 17-18 March, 1945.
Today the site is used as a military artillary range.
The majority of men held in Stalag 8b were not in the main camp but in smaller working camps known as arbeits kommandos. The "E" prefix stands for English, but POW's from many Commonwealth countries worked in these camps.
Arbeits kommandos:
- Schalkendorf in the Kreis (Area of) Oppeln.
- Stauverder
- E1. Laband
- E3 Blechammer
- E8 Krappitz. paper mill
- E17 Oppeln. cement factory
- E22. Gliewitz-Ohringen
- E25 Rauschwalde, Kreis Falkenberg
- E27 coal mine
- E30 Cement factory
- E51. Klausberg
- E62. Gleiwitz-Steigern
- E72. Beuthen
- E75 Knurow
- E88. Hohrnlohehutte
- E94 Emilienhoff. limestone quarry
- E110 Stauwerder
- E114 Gross Kunzendorf. stone quarry and factory
- E119 Mankendorf. Saw Mill
- E138 Ratibor. Steel works
- E131 Tiefbau Pollok. stone quarry
- E149 Buchenlust
- E162 Oderthal
- E196 Opoleonoora. cement factory
- E203 Oppeln. cement works
- E209 Bobrek. coal mine
- E211 Treibiz. railway
- E218 Flossingen
- E234 Tonhain.
- E243, Breslau (gasworks)
- E256 Zuckmantel,
- E260 Grosszeildel
- E276 Ottmachau. sugar beet factory.
- E283 Ratibor (sugar mill)
- E324 Gross Dubrnsko
- E332 Rudgershagen
- E365 Gross Strelitz. lime quarry
- E373 Blaschke, Czechoslovakia. sawmill
- E389 Rudgershagen
- E393 Mittel-Lazisk.
- E411 Hohenzollerngrube Beuthen. coal mine
- E419 Oppeln
- E446 Zuckmantel,
- E456 Kalkau
- E460 building railway bridge
- E479 Tarnowitz
- E484 Neisse. labouring
- E486 Neisse labouring
- E490 Beuthen. railway building
- E494 Gleiwitz Ost
- E51 coal mine
- E535 Sosnowitz West. coal mine
- E538 Sosnowice. mine.
- E542 Fohrengrund ub Gleiwtz
- E543 Drmbrowa
- E552 Hindenberg Philipstr
- E561 Tarnowtitz. railway depot loading and unloading trains.
- E 579
- E563 Bory Jelen Jaworzno
- E565 Sierza Wodna. coal mine
- E571 Gruden. forestry department
- E578 Peiskretscham, Kreis Gleiwitz
- E579 Niwka
- E580 Czelads
- E586 Kazimierz
- E587 Czelads Piarski
- E593 Beuthen Schonberg
- E594 Konigshutte Ost
- E596 Jaworzno
- E603 Hindenburg
- E701 Tichau Czulow (paper factory)
- E702 Klimontow coal mine
- E706 Gleiwtiz
- E707 Sosnowitz
- E708 Laband
- E711A Heydebreck
- E714 Blechhammer, Upper Silesia
- E715 Auschwitz
- E719 Steigern
- E724 Schwientochlowitz
- E725 Konigshutte Bismark
- E727 Mechtal Beuthen. power station
- E728 Neu Oderberg
- E732 Czciakowa
- E734 Schoppintiz
- E739 Dombrowa Grunkolonie
- E740 Kobier
- E742 Ober Lazisk
- E744 Kazimierz
- E746 Konigshutte
- E748 Brorek
- E749 Peiskretscham
- E750 Kattowitz
- E753 Graumanndorf
- E754 Czelads
- E755 Wojkowitz Komorne
- E756 Radzionkau
- E757 Morenrot
- E758 Knurow
- E759 Glewitz
- E760 Bobrek
- E761 Bobrek
- E762 Bobrek
- E902 coal mine
- E902 Delbruckschachte-Hindenburg coal mine
- E22050. gas works