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Anniversary of German aggression against the USSR
Today marks 80 years since the Third Reich attacked its former ally, the USSR. The final failure of this operation, code named Barbarossa, contributed greatly to Germany's ultimate defeat and, as the result, to the end of World War II.
As a result of hostilities on the so-called Ester Front, as many as 5,7 million of the Red Amy soldiers got into captivity, and 3,3 million of them died in it. Around 200,000 of them passed through Lamsdorf. The first of them were transported there as early as July 1941. Before they could be billeted in the huts, their only shelter were dug outs dug with their own hands. The living conditions created by the Wehrmacht in Russenlager, were incomparably worse than in the neighbouring "Britenlager". The prisoners had to struggled against hunger, cold, diseases, crowded places, overwork, and endured exceptionally bad treatment from the camp authorities.
One of the 40,000 Soviet POWs who died in Stalag 318/VIII F (344) Lamsdorf was a Georgian named Szało Tordija. You are welcome to see a film about him, which was made available to us by his son, Waża Tordija.