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

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  1. 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.


  2. * 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-n**i 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

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