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The '''Flossenbürg Concentration Camp''' was a Nazi slave labor camp in which around 30,000 inmates died from malnutrition, overwork, or executions out of 89,964-100,000 prisoners. It was located in east central Germany on the border with [[Czechoslovakia]]. It laborers worked in a stone quarry not far from [[Weiden]].
The '''Flossenbürg Concentration Camp''' was a Nazi slave labor camp in which around 30,000 inmates died from malnutrition, overwork, or executions out of 89,964-100,000 prisoners. It was located in east central Germany on the border with [[Czechoslovakia]], where its laborers were required to extract stone from a quarry.


==Prominent prisoners and executions==
==Prominent prisoners and executions==
It held a number of prominent prisoners, especially after the 20th of July [[1944 assassination attempt against Hitler]]. Admiral [[Wilhelm Canaris]] and Major-General [[Hans Oster]], of the [[Abwehr]], and Pastor [[Dietrich Bonhoeffer]], all three accused in the Plot, were all executed there late in the war, after [[torture]].
It held a number of prominent prisoners, especially after the 20th of July [[1944 assassination attempt against Hitler]]. Admiral [[Wilhelm Canaris]] and Major-General [[Hans Oster]], of the [[Abwehr]], and Pastor [[Dietrich Bonhoeffer]], all three accused in the Plot, were all executed there late in the war, after [[torture]].

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The Flossenbürg Concentration Camp was a Nazi slave labor camp in which around 30,000 inmates died from malnutrition, overwork, or executions out of 89,964-100,000 prisoners. It was located in east central Germany on the border with Czechoslovakia, where its laborers were required to extract stone from a quarry.

Prominent prisoners and executions

It held a number of prominent prisoners, especially after the 20th of July 1944 assassination attempt against Hitler. Admiral Wilhelm Canaris and Major-General Hans Oster, of the Abwehr, and Pastor Dietrich Bonhoeffer, all three accused in the Plot, were all executed there late in the war, after torture.