there were numerous women soldiers in the warsaw uprising. after its collapse, the germans treated them as regular soldiers, according to the geneva convention. unlike civilians from warsaw, they were not sent to concentration camps such as ravensbrück and stutthof, but to special pow camps, operated by the wehrmacht, mainly stalag vi-c in oberlangen and oflag ix-c in molsdorf. in the stalag vi-c there were almost 2,000 women-soldiers, they were freed by the 1st armoured division (poland) of general stanisław maczek. oflag ix-c was freed by the americans of the us third army led by general george s. patton.