Lamsdorf. Stalag VlllB Marion’s Uncle Roland, Dr Webster, was captured in Dunkirk in 1940, then spent time in two Oflags (camps for officers). He tangled with dysentery and typhus at the first and the cramped conditions of an old castle (not Colditz) at the second. In 1941 He arrived at Lamsdorf Stalag Vlll B (now in Poland) and became one of a team of British medics in charge of the health of the prisoners there. My dad arrived in 1943 on a cattle truck train from Chieta in Southern Italy, via Rome, the Bremner Pass, Innsbruck and a transit camp, Stalag VIIA at Moosburg in Austria. Then through Nuernberg and Dresden to Lamsdorf. Both would have arrived by train. The station is a single platform (Sowin) with little to see. The Russian prisoners arrived at the
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