in the summer of 1943, stalag xi-c (311) was dissolved and bergen-belsen became a branch camp of stalag xi-b. it served as the hospital for all soviet pows in the region until january 1945. other inmates/patients were italian military internees from august 1944 and, following the suppression of the warsaw uprising in october 1944, around 1,000 members of the polish home army were imprisoned in a separate section of the pow camp.