^{page 507 note 1} The Zeithain Lager, officially known as “Lazarett”or field hospital, was intended for use as a sanatorium for convalescing military internees, but in reality, like all other camps, its occupants suffered from severe food shortages and the total lack of sanitary and other facilities. Ailing Italian military personnel were sent to it from field hospitals in the Balkans, as were those in other camps who became invalids from exhaustion caused by slave labour conditions.

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