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Flossenburg concentration camp liberated...
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April 25, 1945
THE NEW YORK TIMES, New York, April 25, 1945
* Flossenburg concentration camp
* Nazi death camp liberated
This 40 page newspaper has one column headlines on page 6: "SCHUSHNIGG SLAIN, EX-PRISONERS SAY" and "Reported Hanged by Germans--Schacht Believed Sent to Dachau Camp"
Tells of the recent liberation of one of the Nazis death camps. This item is being listed to show these camps really did exist despite accusations from some ignorant individuals.
Other news of the day throughout with much on World War II. rag edition in very nice condition.
wikipedia notes: Flossenbürg was a Nazi concentration camp built in May 1938 by the Schutzstaffel (SS) Economic-Administrative Main Office at Flossenbürg, in the Oberpfalz region of Bavaria, Germany, near the pre-war border with Czechoslovakia. Between 1938, when the camp was established, and liberation in April 1945, more than 96,000 prisoners passed through Flossenbürg. About 30,000 died there.
In early April 1945, as American forces were approaching the camp, the SS executed General Hans Oster, Admiral Wilhelm Canaris, Rev. Dr. Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Dr. Karl Sack, Dr. Theodor Strünck and General Friedrich von Rabenau, who were involved in the July 20, 1944 assassination attempt on Adolf Hitler, along with the French Resistance worker Simone Michel-Lévy, who had managed to organize an uprising in the camp. On 20 April 1945, they began the forced evacuation of 22,000 inmates, including 1,700 Jews, leaving behind only those too sick to walk. On the death march to the Dachau concentration camp, SS guards shot any inmate too sick to keep up. Before they reached Dachau, more than 7,000 inmates had been shot or had collapsed and died.
By the time the U.S. Army's 90th Infantry Division freed the camp on April 23, 1945, more than 30,000 inmates had died at Flossenbürg. The American soldiers found about 1,600 ill and weak prisoners, mostly in the camp's hospital barracks.
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