 Physical and sanitary conditions were very poor, and of the estimated 200,000 Soviet prisoners who passed through the camp, about 40,000 died of starvation, mistreatment and disease.The Germans did not apply the provisions of the Third Geneva Convention to Soviet prisoners on the grounds that the Soviet Union was not a signatory.In October 1944, about 6,000 soldiers of the Armia Krajowa arrived after being captured in the Warsaw Uprising.