Nearly 97,000 prisoners passed through the Flossenbürg concentration camp system between 1938 and 1945. An estimated 30,000 prisoners died in Flossenbürg and its subcamps or during the SS-led forced evacuations.
View through the barbed wire of the prisoner barracks in the Flossenbürg concentration camp. Flossenbürg, Germany, 1942.
Item ViewAfter the liberation of the Flossenbürg camp, a US Army officer (right) examines a crematorium oven in which Flossenbürg camp victims were cremated. Flossenbürg, Germany, April 30, 1945.
Item ViewAfter the liberation of the Flossenbürg concentration camp, two US army infantrymen examine a pile of shoes belonging to victims of the camp. Flossenbürg, Germany, May 1945.
Item ViewExecution site in the Flossenbürg concentration camp, seen here after liberation of the camp by US armed forces. Flossenbürg, Germany, after May 1945.
Item ViewView of the Flossenbürg concentration camp after the liberation of the camp by US forces. Flossenbürg, Germany, 1945.
Item ViewBarracks for prisoners at the Flossenbürg concentration camp, seen here after liberation of the camp by US forces. Flossenbürg, Germany, May 5, 1945.
Item ViewDietrich Bonhoeffer, German Protestant theologian who was executed in the Flossenbürg concentration camp on April 9, 1945. Germany, date uncertain.
Item ViewPhotograph of Julian Noga, a Polish prisoner (marked with an identifying patch bearing a "P" for Pole) imprisoned in the Flossenbürg concentration camp. Germany, between August 1942 and April 1945.
Item ViewPrisoners at forced labor break stone with pickaxes in the quarry of the Flossenbürg concentration camp. Flossenbürg, Germany, date uncertain.
Item ViewPrisoners at forced labor on a construction project in the Flossenbürg concentration camp. Flossenbürg, Germany, date uncertain.
Item ViewThe crematorium building at the Flossenbürg concentration camp. Flossenbürg, Germany, May 1945.
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