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When was Flossenburg concentration camp established, and closed, and by who?


Question: PLZ help me it is for an report!!!!
Answers: * May 3, 1938 established
* near Floss and Namering, Germany
* built near granite quarry
* 65,000 prisoners throughout camp's history
* 5,000 to 18,000 prisoners at any one time in the camp
* Sub-camps
* commandants
o Jacob Weiseborn
o Egon Zill
o Max Koegel
o Karl Künster
* prisoners worked in granite quarry, armaments factories, aircraft factories
* dead prisoners were cremated in a crematorium, but when that was overloaded, they were buried in mass pits
* April 5, 1940 first transport of foreign (non-German) prisoners arrive
* April 9, 1945 Dietrich Bonhoeffer, an anti-Nazi Protestant theologian, executed
* April 9, 1945 Admiral Wilhelm Canaris executed
* April 20, 1945 15,000 prisoners evacuated in a death march
* April 23, 1945 Flossenbürg liberated by the American army; only 2,000 prisoners alive in the camp
Flossenbürg was a German concentration camp built in May 1938 by the SS Economic-Administrative Main Office.
The U.S. Army 90th Infantry Division freed Flossenbürg on April 23, 1945.


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