Stalag X-B

Stalag X-B
Camp huts housing the exhibition, 2013
Stalag X-B is located in Germany
Stalag X-B
Stalag X-B
Coordinates53°23′59″N 9°06′35″E / 53.399642°N 9.109811°E / 53.399642; 9.109811
TypePrisoner-of-war camp
Site information
OwnerStiftung Lager Sandbostel
Controlled by Nazi Germany
Open to
the public
yes
Site history
In use(as POW camp) 1939–1945
Demolished1945

Stalag X-B was a World War II German prisoner-of-war camp located near Sandbostel in Lower Saxony in north-western Germany. Between 1939 and 1945 several hundred thousand POWs of 55 nations passed through the camp. Due to the bad conditions in which they were housed, thousands died there of hunger, disease, or were killed by the guards. Estimates of the number of dead range from 8,000 to 50,000.