Flossenbürg Sub-camps – Historical Overview and Archaeology

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Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Flossenbürg Sub-camps – Historical Overview and Archaeology

Original language description

After the Nazis seized power, they began to builda system of prison camps in Germany, which peakedduring the Second World War. In total, more thana million and a half prisoners were incarceratedin 27 main concentration camps and more thana thousand sub-camps. In addition to the main concentrationcamps and their sub-camps, other typesof internment and labour camps were established.The extermination camps located in the territory ofpresent-day Poland were designed for the systematicmurder of millions of Jews, Roma, and other groupsof the European population [e.g. Bartow 2000; Herbert,Orth, Dieckmann 1998; Wachsmann 2015;Wachsmann, Caplan 2009].In occupied Czechoslovakia, sub-camps of theFlossenbürg, Groß Rosen, and Auschwitz main concentrationcamps were established. They were predominantlysituated in the border areas of Bohemia,Moravia, and Moravian Silesia, which were annexedby Nazi Germany in 1939. Other types of camps werealso set up, such as short-term internment camps forJews and various labour and prisoner-of-war camps.For several decades, historical research has focusedon Nazi prison camps on the territory of the present-day Czech Republic [e.g., Adam 2016; Bružeňák2015; Bubeníčková, Kubátová, Malá 1969; Laštovka1971; Padevět 2018].More than 70 sites formed the Flossenbürg subcampsystem, 17 of which were situated in Bohemiain the contemporary Czech Republic. They wereconcentrated in border regions, mainly in Westand northwest Bohemia in the former Sudetenland,which was annexed by Nazi Germany in October1938. Three Flossenbürg branches were also establishedin Central Bohemia in the so-called “ProtektoratBöhmen und Mähren” [Adam 2016; Padevět2018; https://www.gedenkstaette-flossenbuerg.de/cs/historie/pobocky-koncentracniho-tabora].

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Czech description

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Type

C - Chapter in a specialist book

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

60102 - Archaeology

Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2025

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Book/collection name

Between KZ Flossenbürg and KZ Gross-Rosen: Archaeology of Nazi prison camps in West Bohemia and Southwest Poland

ISBN

978-83-7717-425-8

Number of pages of the result

4

Pages from-to

21-24

Number of pages of the book

262

Publisher name

Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Przyrodniczego we Wrocławiu

Place of publication

Wrocław

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