Detainee Building Concentration Camp Flossenbürg

Built in 1940, this detainee building included forty single cells and a walled courtyard. Prisoners were punished here for alleged offenses by solitary confinement. The building was also used to detain prominent prisoners.

More than a thousand people were executed in the courtyard by the SS, including British agents and German and foreign resistance fighters.

Here on 9 April 1945, Reverend Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Admiral Wilhelm Canaris, Captain Ludwig Gehre, Major General Hans Oster, General Friedrich von Rabenau, Military Judge Karl Sack and Captain Theodor Strünck were executed. They were involved in military resistance to Hitler. A plaque commemorates their fate.

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• Text: TracesOfWar
• Photos: Koos Winkelman