_122 Barracks "Accommodation in Stalag VIIA was particularly bad. The camp had been built to hold 14,000 prisoners but eventually held 130,000 POWs. In some compounds the barracks were empty shells with dirt floors, in others they were wooden buildings with a washroom containing a few cold-water taps. By joining the bunks together they could fit 500 men into a building originally meant to hold only 200. Every building was infested with rats. The conditions were so bad that when the weather improved in the spring many of the POWs moved out of the barracks into tents or slept outside in the open air.\r\n\r\nPhoto \u2013 tents to address the problems of overcrowding at Stalag VII A" eulac3d Image IMAGE "Accommodation in Stalag VIIA was particularly bad. The camp had been built to hold 14,000 prisoners but eventually held 130,000 POWs. In some compounds the barracks were empty shells with dirt floors, in others they were wooden buildings with a washroom containing a few cold-water taps. By joining the bunks together they could fit 500 men into a building originally meant to hold only 200. Every building was infested with rats. The conditions were so bad that when the weather improved in the spring many of the POWs moved out of the barracks into tents or slept outside in the open air.\r\n\r\nPhoto \u2013 tents to address the problems of overcrowding at Stalag VII A"