24 Mar 1938
Germany
Germany
- An SS commission chose Flossenbürg in southern Germany as the location of a new Nazi slave labor camp. ww2dbase [Flossenbürg Concentration Camp | Discovery of Concentration Camps and the Holocaust | Flossenbürg, Bayreuth | CPC]
31 Mar 1938
Germany
Germany
- The order for the construction of eight barracks at the Flossenbürg Concentration Camp in southern Germany was issued. ww2dbase [Flossenbürg Concentration Camp | Discovery of Concentration Camps and the Holocaust | Flossenbürg, Bayreuth | CPC]
3 May 1938
Germany
Germany
- The first transport, containing 100 prisoners, arrived at the newly established Flossenbürg Concentration Camp in southern Germany. ww2dbase [Flossenbürg Concentration Camp | Discovery of Concentration Camps and the Holocaust | Flossenbürg, Bayreuth | CPC]
9 May 1938
Germany
Germany
- A numbers of prisoners arrived at the newly established Flossenbürg Concentration Camp in southern Germany. ww2dbase [Flossenbürg Concentration Camp | Discovery of Concentration Camps and the Holocaust | Flossenbürg, Bayreuth | CPC]
16 May 1938
Germany
Germany
- A numbers of prisoners arrived at the newly established Flossenbürg Concentration Camp in southern Germany. On the same day, Heinrich Himmler and Oswald Pohl arrived at the camp for an inspection. ww2dbase [Discovery of Concentration Camps and the Holocaust | Flossenbürg Concentration Camp | Flossenbürg, Bayreuth | CPC]
23 Jan 1941
Germany
Germany
- 600 Polish prisoners arrived at Flossenbürg Concentration Camp from Auschwitz Concentration Camp in occupied Poland. ww2dbase [Discovery of Concentration Camps and the Holocaust | Flossenbürg Concentration Camp | Flossenbürg, Bayreuth | CPC]
6 Feb 1941
Germany
Germany
- Executions of prisoners by gunfire began at Flossenbürg Concentration Camp; the first victims were Polish political prisoners. ww2dbase [Discovery of Concentration Camps and the Holocaust | Flossenbürg Concentration Camp | Flossenbürg, Bayreuth | CPC]
8 Sep 1941
Germany
Germany
- 80 Polish prisoners were executed by gunfire at Flossenbürg Concentration Camp. After this execution, local civilians complained of blood contaminating local streams, and the method of execution at Flossenbürg would be switched to lethal injections. ww2dbase [Flossenbürg Concentration Camp | Discovery of Concentration Camps and the Holocaust | Flossenbürg, Bayreuth | CPC]
19 Oct 1942
Germany
Germany
- The last twelve surviving Jewish prisoners of Flossenbürg Concentration Camp were transferred to Auschwitz Concentration Camp in occupied Poland. ww2dbase [Discovery of Concentration Camps and the Holocaust | Flossenbürg Concentration Camp | Flossenbürg, Bayreuth | CPC]
5 Dec 1943
Germany
Germany
- A transport of 948 prisoners from Flossenbürg Concentration Camp arrived at Auschwitz Concentration Camp. More than 250 prisoners were already dead upon arrival. ww2dbase [Discovery of Concentration Camps and the Holocaust | Flossenbürg Concentration Camp | Flossenbürg, Bayreuth | CPC]
1 Jan 1944
Germany
Germany
- Petr Novikov was executived at the Flossenbürg Concentration Camp in Germany. ww2dbase [Flossenbürg Concentration Camp | Petr Novikov | Flossenbürg, Bayreuth | CPC]
9 Apr 1945
Germany
Germany
- Wilhelm Canaris was executed by hanging by piano wire at the Flossenbürg concentration camp in Flossenbürg, southern Germany. ww2dbase [Wilhelm Canaris | Flossenbürg Concentration Camp | Dietrich Bonhoeffer | Flossenbürg, Bayreuth | CPC]
16 Apr 1945
Germany
Germany
- 1,700 Jewish prisoners at Flossenbürg Concentration Camp were loaded onto open freight railcars starting at 0500 hours, with very little food and water. When the train began to move out of the station, US aircraft strafed, killing an unknown number of prisoners. Those who were injured by the US attack were executed by SS guards. ww2dbase [Flossenbürg Concentration Camp | Discovery of Concentration Camps and the Holocaust | Flossenbürg, Bayreuth | CPC]
17 Apr 1945
Germany
Germany
- The evacuation of non-Jewish prisoners of Flossenbürg Concentration Camp began, with 2,000 prisoners being forced to march toward Dachau Concentration Camp in Germany on foot. ww2dbase [Discovery of Concentration Camps and the Holocaust | Flossenbürg Concentration Camp | Flossenbürg, Bayreuth | CPC]
19 Apr 1945
Germany
Germany
- 16,000 of the 25,000 to 30,000 prisoners still in the Flossenbürg Concentration Camp system were ordered to march toward Dachau Concentration Camp in Germany by rail and on foot. ww2dbase [Flossenbürg Concentration Camp | Discovery of Concentration Camps and the Holocaust | Flossenbürg, Bayreuth | CPC]
20 Apr 1945
Germany
Germany
- The train containing Jewish prisoners from Flossenbürg Concentration Camp was disabled by an US air attack. SS guards forced the 750 surviving prisoners out of the open freight cars, executed 140 prisoners who could not walk, and forced the remaining about 610 prisoners to march toward the Theresienstadt ghetto in occupied Czechoslovakia. ww2dbase [Discovery of Concentration Camps and the Holocaust | Flossenbürg Concentration Camp | Flossenbürg, Bayreuth | CPC]
23 Apr 1945
Germany
Germany
- A group of non-Jewish Flossenbürg Concentration Camp prisoners arrived at Dachau Concentration Camp in Germany after a six-day march. On the same day, troops of the US 90th Infantry Division liberated the main camp of Flossenbürg, finding 1,527 prisoners still in the camp; about 300 of them would die despite receiving care from US Army medics. Meanwhile, several groups of prisoners who were marched out of Flossenbürg in the preceding days were found and liberated by US Army troops in the surrounding area. ww2dbase [Discovery of Concentration Camps and the Holocaust | Flossenbürg Concentration Camp | Flossenbürg, Bayreuth | CPC]
3 May 1945
Germany
Germany
- US authorities held a funeral for 21 of the former prisoners of Flossenbürg Concentration Camp. ww2dbase [Flossenbürg Concentration Camp | Flossenbürg, Bayreuth | CPC]
5 May 1945
Photo(s) dated 5 May 1945
Photo(s) dated 5 May 1945
6 May 1945
Germany
Germany
- Investigation of crimes at Flossenbürg Concentration Camp began, oversaw by 11 US Army appointed investigators. ww2dbase [Flossenbürg Concentration Camp | Nuremberg Trials and Other Trials Against Germany | Flossenbürg, Bayreuth | CPC]
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