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Flossenbürg was a Nazi concentration camp built in May 1938 by the SS Main Economic and Administrative Office. Unlike other concentration camps, it was located in a remote area, in the Fichtel Mountains of Bavaria, adjacent to the town of Flossenbürg and near the German border with Czechoslovakia.
Learn about the Flossenbürg camp from its establishment until liberation in April 1945, including conditions, forced labor, subcamps, and death marches.
Learn more about the history of the Flossenbürg concentration camp. The Biographies of the Prisoners. Who were they? Why were they here? And what became of them? Learn more. Educational programs and guided tours. Learn more. On One's Own Behalf. »Bequest« of the survivors of the German concentration camps. Learn more. Bavarian Memorial Foundation.
Flossenbürg, Nazi German concentration camp, established in 1937 in the market town of Flossenbürg, near the Czech border in Bavaria, Germany. It was originally used for political prisoners but, by World War II, had become an important forced-labor center, housing 30,000 to 40,000 worker-prisoners.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Beginning in 1942, the Flossenbürg concentration camp, like other main camps, became the epicenter of a widely dispersed auxiliary camp system. Its nearly 80 subcamps extended from Würzburg to Prague, and from Saxony to Lower Bavaria. Twenty-seven subcamps held female prisoners.
By summer of 1944, Flossenbürg had become a destination for evacuation transports, death marches from camps that were being closed ahead of the Allied advance. On the 17th of April 1945, the first death march left Flossenbürg, heading for Dachau.
Millions of people suffered and died in camps, ghettos, and other sites during the Holocaust. The Nazis and their allies oversaw more than 44,000 camps, ghettos, and other sites of detention, persecution, forced labor, and murder. Among them was the Freiberg subcamp of Flossenbürg.
