Flossenburg

Flossenburg Concentration Camp

1. Location

   1. Flossenburg was located in southeastern Germany.

   2. It was near the Czech border

   3. Located near the towns of Floss and Bayreath

2. Prisoners Way of Life

   1. Very brutal camp

   2. Prisoners brought from the camp Dauchau.

   3. Foreign prisoners arrive in 1940.

   4. If mass extermination was needed prisoners were taken to Polan for extermination

   5. Prisoners treated harshly

1. Give very little food
2. Forced to work in stone quarries, or factories on site.
3. Overcrowded, and neglected treatment, very bad hygine.
4. SS officers were usually cruel to prisoners, showed no mercy.

1. The Uses of the Camp

   1. Camp was originally a prison for criminals and a social men.]

   2. Previous Russian Prisoners had to be executed to make room for Jews

   3. The camp held 40,000 Jews

   4. Jews could be cremated, or buried.

   5. Used to train SS officers

   6. Factories produced goods for German armies.

2. Camps Features.

   1. Large guard towers at the corners of the camp.

   2. Fenced in borders

   3. 16 Large barracks.

   4. Divisions of 94 sub-camps

   5. SS quarters in larger nicer buildings.

3. Camp General Information.

   1. Camp created in September 1938

   2. Over 30,000 prisoners killed

   3. Around 96,000 prisoners passed through the camp.

   4. The camp could hold up to 40,000 prisoners.

   5. On April 23, 1945 the camp was liberated by the U.S. 97th Infantry Division.

   6. After liberation, only 2,000 were alive, they were all ill and skeletal from starvation.