 In late 1943, following the armistice, Italians arrived.There were also Soviet POWs, who were housed in the easternmost hut which was isolated from the others by an additional barbed-wire fence.Stalag X-C housed only about 1,000 prisoners, but there were up to 45,000 men in numerous "Arbeitskommando" scattered throughout the Weser-Ems region attached to it.