During World War II, the Germans established six forced labour camps in the town,[6] including a subcamp of the Nazi prison for youth in Wołów (in the present-day Paulinów district).[9] In 1942–1945, there was also a transit camp for kidnapped Polish children intended for Germanisation, and in 1944, a transit camp for Poles transported from the transit camp in Pruszków near Warsaw after the suppression of the 1944 Warsaw Uprising.[6] The town was made into a stronghold by the German government early in 1945 in the last stages of World War II. Glogau was besieged for six weeks by the Soviet Red Army, which left 98% of the buildings completely destroyed.