The Wehrmacht established Stalag 380 (maps 3 and 5) from Stalag XII C on April 17, 1942.1 Stalag 380 was deployed to Skarżysko-Kamienna, in the Radom District of the Generalgouvernement. On June 1, 1942, there were 1,750 prisoners (including 285 officers) in the camp, and on August 1, there were 5,722 prisoners.2 While it was deployed in Poland, the camp was subordinate to the Commander of Prisoners of War in the Generalgouvernement Poland (Kommandeur der Kriegsgefangenen im Generalgouvernement Polen). No specific information on conditions in Stalag 380 is available, but, in general, Soviet prisoners of war (POWs) were treated terribly. Camps for Soviet POWs were usually overcrowded and the prisoners did not receive adequate food and medical care. Conditions in Stalag 380 were probably better than the conditions in other camps in the winter of 1941–1942, but housing, food, and medical care were likely still far below the standards of the Geneva Convention of 1929. The prisoners were...