Flossenbürg concentration camp German resistance who had conspired to assassinate Hitler and who were executed on 9 April 1945. Since 2016, a digital book of the dead is available online and contains the names of more than 21,000 known prisoners who perished in the concentration camp Flossenbürg concentration camp Flossenbürg concentration camp () was a Nazi concentration camp built in May 1938 by the SS Main Economic and Administrative Office at Flossenbürg, in the Upper Palatinate region of Bavaria, Germany, near the border with Czechoslovakia. Until its liberation in April 1945, 89,964 prisoners passed through the camp, around 30,000 of whom died there.
Dachau concentration camp (where Hitler had written "Mein Kampf" during his imprisonment). Himmler announced in the "Münchner Neuesten Nachrichten" newspaper that the camp could hold up to 5,000 people, and described it as "the first concentration camp for political prisoners" to be used to restore calm to Germany. It became the first regular concentration camp established by the coalition government of the National Socialist German Worker's Party (Nazi Party) and the German National People's Party (dissolved on 6 July 1933). Jehovah’s Witnesses, homosexuals, and emigrants were sent to Dachau after the 1935 passage of the Nuremberg Laws which institutionalized racial discrimination. In early