The Site of National Remembrance

The passing time, people’s activity and the fact that the areas of the former camps were covered with the legal protection as the Site of National Remembrance relatively late have resulted in that until contemporary time there have been preserved few material traces of the existence of the artillery range or the camps located in its area. It is mainly objects forming the complex of the Lamsdorf stalags of the time of World War 2 which have survived till today.

The best-preserved remains of the camp infrastructure are found in the area of the former Stalag 318/VIII F (344) Lamsdorf. They are the remnants of brick bunkhouses (the so-called Massivbaracken), which – together with the wooden bunkhouses – formed the basic part of the camp. The Museum, which is the owner of the area, had a segment of one of the brick bunkhouses reconstructed in the past; so were the sentry tower and the fence of barbed wire. Of the infrastructure of Stalag 318/VIII F there has been preserved cellars of some brick buildings, remains of the camp baths and the water and sewage system (the water pumping-room).

The fragments of the infrastructure of the other camp functioning in Lamsdorf during World War 2, that is Stalag VIII B (344), are in a poorer state, despite the fact that they were constructed with more precision than those being part of the infrastructure of Stalag 318/VIII F (344). There have remained merely small remnants of the bunkhouses and storehouses (the foundations, concrete tables), three fire ponds, as well as the Chestnut Alley which used to lead the POWs into the camp.

Scanty traces of the camp’s past, first of all the fragments of some bunkhouses foundations, can also be found in the area of the former Labor Camp in Łambinowice (1945-1946).