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
Flossenbürg concentration camp Troops from the US 2nd Cavalry Group, Mechanized, the 90th Infantry Division and the 97th Infantry Division found about 1,600 ill and weak prisoners, mostly in the camp's hospital barracks. Members of the US army's Counter-Intelligence Corps, including Ib Melchior, Anthony Hecht and Robie Macauley, conducted extensive interviews with survivors to gather evidence for the 1946 Flossenbürg War Crimes Trial. The Flossenbürg War Crimes Trial took place in Dachau, Germany, from 12 June 1946 until 22 January 1947. An American military tribunal tried 46 former staff from Flossenbürg concentration camp for crimes of murder, torture, and starving the inmates in