Significance Of The Flossenbürg

Adolf Hitler is a well known name, he was the dictator who commenced the Holocaust. Flossenbürg was the fourth concentration camp created. The Holocaust itself was from 1933 to 1945 twelve years filled with pain and death. So many lives were lost, yet no one stood up to prevent this awful event, in history, until it was too late to save the millions of lives already lost. The Holocaust will never be forgotten, it was a brutal attempt of extermination of a selected human race, just because of their life choices. This mass murder will never be forgotten it has made a huge impact in history. Flossenbürg served as one of the many concentration camps, which was completely brutal; even the SS admitted it. The Flossenbürg concentration camp was located north east Bavaria Germany. Before it became a concentration camp, it was a beautiful
landscape filled with green trees and grass, it was a really peaceful sight until in 1938 it became a the last resting place for many. The prisoners included Soviet, Polish, Jews, and occasionally homosexuales. This camp was a labor camp, the prisoners were to be awake at four thirty every morning and were given black coffee. By 1941 the prisoners were forced to assemble messerschmitt fighter planes. Furthermore the living conditions were ultimately dreadful. This camp had sixteen huge barracks, a kitchen, a laundry, an infirmary, and a disinfecting house. They were given two meals daily, black coffee in the morning and perhaps a piece of bread, and cabbage soup later on the day towards bedtime. The prisoners with absence of medical care which “... facilitated the spread of disease, including dysentery and typhus”(Flossenbürg). With this spread of diseases it became crucial to be exposed to the other prisoners around you.
It is estimated that there was more than 111,000 prisoners in Flossenbürg and its 93 subcamps. There were about 73,000 victims. which included Polish, Soviet, and Jewish prisoners. Some known causes of death include, starvation, hard labor, harsh beatings, arbitrary punishments , lack of medical care, dysentery, typhus and in some cases depression. With the increase of famine more lives were lost. In 1943 a sealed train with 1200 Jewish prisoners was sent from Flossenbürg to Auschwitz, its said that the guards left 80 Jewish prisoners in the snow to freeze to death. As one can see, the “... morality at Flossenbürg was the highest towards the end of the war”(Flossenbürg ). After the war ended the Flossenbürg concentration camp turned into a memorial museum, that have plaques of the known victims, who had an awful brutal harsh death.
This camp is known for being one of the possible camps that Hitler himself might of visited.
Hitler rarely, almost never visited the camps.Thus this being one of the seven main camps, there is a possibility of him visiting Its one of the seven main camps. Flossenbürg is just one of the many 20,000 concentration camps that were made to torture innocent people, and leave them without any faith or hope of life getting somewhat better, living your life daily in real fear is not anything any human who did not experience that, can ever relate to. Although this concentration camps did not produce any experiments on the prisoners, the soldiers did use the tattooed prisoners skin, and made them into lampshades.Even if this camp was unmistakably cruel, heartless, sadistic, it became, believe it or not, less brutal towards the end of the war. This camp also held prisoners who later on would be sent to death camps. This camp like most was surrounded by barbed wire. To this day two watch towers remain standing, reminding us of the mass murder that occurred just decades before. Flossenbürg was liberated on April 23, 1945 by the U.S
cavalry.
One of the fortunate survivors named Julian Noga, born on July 31st , 1921, from Skrzynka Poland. At age sixteen he went to go work at a Jewish club, when the Germans invaded, he ran to the forest, but later on was betrayed and sent to Austria to do farm labor. Later on he fell in love with a young women named Frieda, his owners daughter, they were both in love with each other. Even after her father's disapproval, they still stayed in contact, but in secret. Later on he was told that he would be hanged if he did not stop seeing Freida, consequently he was sent to another farm, however they continued to see each other until he was arrested on September 19, 1941. “Julian was liberated on April 23, 1945, while on a forced march out of Flossenbürg. Reunited after the war, Julian and Frieda married and emigrated to the United States”(Julian Noga).
The Holocaust will forever be remembered, and will constantly be questioned, on the real reason why it happened, why such an remoress action was created. Many wonder what possessed Adolf Hitler to do such damage, on what amount of anger, hatred, pain, even fear and envy, did he have to turn to such drastic measures. This may never be known, but one thing is for sure Flossenbürg like many camps was frightfully brutal. Flossenbürg was just one of the concentration camps. It was also a last resting place for many.