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Flossenbürg (inhabited place) |
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| Lat: 49 44 00 N degrees minutes |
Lat: 49.7333 decimal degrees |
| Long: 012 21 00 E degrees minutes |
Long: 12.3500 decimal degrees |
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Note: A town in Bavaria situated near the Czech border, Flossenbürg was the location of a Nazi concentration camp during World War II. The camp was established in May of 1938 for political prisoners, and grew to also become a forced-labor center, as well as a prisoner-of-war camp. Both political prisoners and prisoners-of-war were routinely executed in mass killings at Flossenbürg, and the prisoner population of the camp went from 4,000 in 1943, to 40,000 in early 1945. Approximately 30,000 prisoners died at Flossenbürg, and 96,000 prisoners passed through before it was liberated by U.S. forces in April of 1945. |
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| inhabited place (preferred, C) |
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| town (C) |
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| concentration camp site (H) |
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