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4 unusual facts about Flossenbürg concentration camp


Arado Flugzeugwerke

Until their liberation in April 1945 by the Soviet army, 1,012 slave laborers from Freiburg, a sub-camp of the Flossenbürg concentration camp, worked at the Arado factory, beginning with the first trainload of 249 prisoners arriving in August 1944.

Hans Hüttig

After his spell at Buchenwald Hüttig saw service at Sachsenhausen concentration camp and Flossenbürg concentration camp and in both garnered a reputation as a troubleshooter who was suitable for special tasks.

Karl Fritzsch

On 15 January 1942, Fritzsch was transferred to KZ Flossenbürg as Schutzhaftlagerführer.

Tadeusz Sobolewicz

Sobolewicz endured the entire rest of the war in six concentration camps, first and longest in Auschwitz (until March 10, 1943), and then in Buchenwald, Leipzig (subcamp of Buchenwald), Mülsen (subcamp of Flossenbürg), Flossenbürg, and Regensburg (subcamp of Flossenbürg).


Enric Marco

Enric Marco (born 1921 in Barcelona) is an impostor who claimed to have been a prisoner in Nazi German concentration camps Mauthausen and Flossenburg in World War II.

Fürstengrube subcamp

In September, November, and December 1944, the Polish and Russian prisoners were moved to the Flossenbürg, Buchenwald, and Mauthausen concentration camps.

Marian P. Opala

In 1944 Opala was captured by German forces in the Warsaw Uprising and held in Flossenbürg concentration camp in Bavaria.


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