 After the camp had been emptied and the political prisoners transferred elsewhere, in June 1940 a group of roughly 1,400 Polish officers taken captive during the 1939 invasion of Poland were transferred to the newly designated Stalag VI-C.However, in preparation for the Operation Barbarossa the Polish officers were transferred to other Oflags in April 1941 and later that summer the Stalag VI-C received roughly 2,000 Soviet prisoners of war.Conditions were appalling, starvation, epidemics and ill-treatment took a heavy toll of lives.