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The year 2020 has not been a good time for science. Restrictions on movement and the closure of archives and libraries, have forced us to rely solely on intensive searches in digital collections. However, they are getting richer and richer, and thus more and more valuable to us, e.g. as a source of knowledge about the German staff of the Lamsdorf camps during World War II.

Interesting personal data of soldiers, their military careers, and the post-war fates of the camp commandants, guards or medics employed by the Wehrmacht, were found by the employees of our Research Department in the files of the Bundesarchiv in Freiburg and Berlin-Reinickendorf. The research is not new. They were undertaken by our predecessors, and recently, in 2018, Dr. Ewelina Klimczak published in the journal "Acta Universitatis Lodziensis. Folia Historica", an article Service of the guards of Stalag VIII B Lamsdorf during World War II. Regulations and reality.

However, there is more interesting information in store for us. In the 6^th issue of Sketches from the History of Lamsdorf/Łambinowice Camps. History and the Present Day, on which the publishing works are coming to an end, Maria Bula, from the Research Department, will present a text in which she will compare the results of her search of the digital collections of German archives with the memorial book of Major Walter Kühn, the commander of Camp VIII F Lamsdorf, which is kept in the Institute of National Remembrance.

The book will soon be available for purchase from our online bookshop.