Many soldiers were taken prisoner especially at the beginning of the war and were interned in various POW camps, including Stalag VIII-B Lamsdorf, Stalag IV-C at Wistritz bei Teplitz, and Stalag IV-B near Most in the Czech Republic.
Stalag VIII-B, a notorious World War II German Army prisoner of war camp near Lamsdorf (Łambinowice)
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He is best known for his role as commander of the Łambinowice transfer and internment camp created in the former German Stalag VIII-B.
He was captured by the German army in June 1940 and imprisoned in Stalag VIII-A, a prisoner-of-war camp in Görlitz, Germany (now Zgorzelec, Poland).
In 1942 they were replaced with Soviet prisoners, and the camp was placed under the administration of Stalag VIII-C near Żagań.
In December 1944 Coward was sent back to the main camp of Stalag VIII-B at Lamsdorf (now Łambinowice, Poland) and in January 1945, the POWs were marched under guard to Bavaria, where they were eventually liberated.