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Flossenbürg was a concentration camp in Bavaria that opened on May 3, 1938, and was evacuated on April 20, 1945. The camp housed both male and female prisoners. In 1941 a separate camp for 2,000 Russian prisoners of war opened within the main concentration camp. By the end of the war, some 31,170 male and 14,600 female inmates of various nationalities, including German criminals and political prisoners, Poles, Czechs, and Russians, were incarcerated in Flossenbürg. Prisoners were compelled to work for Messerschmidt AG manufacturing airplane parts. The concentration camp was also administratively linked to a large number of subcamps and affiliated forced labor employers. The Germans evacuated roughly 14,000 prisoners from the camp on April 20, 1945 . The US Army liberated Flossenbürg on April 23, 1945. At the time of liberation, 1,526 prisoners remained in the camp. (en-US)

Fonte

Lutz, Thomas, ed. Memorial Museums to the Victims of the Nazi Regime: A Comprehensive Guide. Berlin: Stiftung Topographie des Terrors, 1996. p. 60

Termini più generici

• campi nazisti in Germania