Bavarian concentration camp opens as museum
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62 years after its liberation by the Allied Forces The Bavarian concentration camp Flossenbürg opens as a museum:
An estimated 30,000 prisoners lost their lives at Flossenbuerg in the southern German state of Bavaria. Many of them were from the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, including Jews from Hungary and Poland, as well as political prisoners from Germany.
From its founding in 1938 to its liberation on April 23, 1945, by American troops, more than 100,000 people were detained at the camp and its more than 90 external branches.
“I bow my head in front of you,” Bavarian Governor Edmund Stoiber said in a speech to the 84 former prisoners who participated in the ceremony. ”We will do everything to make sure that you will never be forgotten.”
Read full article (ynetnews.com, July 22, 2007)
Flossenbürg on Wikipedia
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