In 1938, the Nazis established the Flossenbürg concentration camp in Bavaria, Germany. Nearly 97,000 prisoners, including more than 16,000 women, were held at Flossenbürg and its over 100 subcamps until the camps were liberated in 1945. Learn more about Flossenbürg and its subcamps during the Holocaust (1933-1945).
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