Flossenbürg 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. Before World War II, Flossenbürg was a camp exclusively for German "antisocial" or "criminal" prisoners. The camp's site was chosen so that the inmates could be used as slave labor to quarry the granite found in the nearby hills. The quarries belonged to
Warsaw concentration camp deutschen Zeitgeschichte 1918-1968" published in 1986 in Deutschland KL, Warschau is designated as a "Hauptlager" ("main camp"), and as such it has the same status as KL Dachau. Besides Germans and the Volksdeutsche, the guards also included ethnic Ukrainians and Latvians from Trawniki concentration camp. The camp was composed of six small sections located in different areas of Warsaw, all of which were connected by railway and were under unified organization and one command. In chronological order of opening, those were: The overall area of the camp was 1.2 km² (0.46 sq mi), with 119 barracks purposely built to hold