Flossenburg Concentration Camp

Visiting the Flossenburg Concentration Camp, a place of imprisonment during World War II, was quite a somber experience. Rewinding back to a period of history that evoked so much hatred and persecution is an emotional experience to say the least. There was a museum that housed many facts about what happened at the camp, and there were also several building still in tact that we walked through, including the place where bodies were cremated.

 At the museum we learned that nearly 30,000 people were killed at Flossenburg. It was known as a labor camp, so many of the people died while working under brutal conditions. When the liberation finally happened in 1945 the citizens of Flossenburg were more or less forced to participate in a death march and had to help bury the bodies of those that were not able to be cremated. We learned that so many bodies went through the crematory that it essentially broke, so bodies had to be thrown over the camp walls into the forest. These are the bodies that needed buried by the citizens of Flossenburg.

Near the bottom of the picture is a memorial area. The white buildings at the top were areas where people were hanged or held in solitary confinement.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

A plaque honoring the liberation.