In this section you can find documents providing direct, unmediated information. They represent a primary source which gives one the advantage over secondary or tertiary sources, subject to your interpretation only.
Peter Kleinmann and his brother Al, removed them from Flossenbürg at liberation fearing that they may be destroyed. Peter and Al wanted the world to know what was unimaginable at the time.
The first documents on this site tell the story of Vladimir Odvody, Jaroslav Rojt, and Vaclav Radl, three inmates of the Flossenbürg concentration camp. Located in a mountanious region of Bavaria, Flossenbürg was the fifth of several hundred concentration camps built by the Nazis. It was categorized as II, that is, for serious criminals who could nonetheless be rehabilitated or reformed. For the SS this meant that stringent detention and labor conditions were to be enforced. The remoteness of the camp in the last months of the war made it a very popular execution place. A total of 112,000 people were interned in Flossenbürg of which some 30,000 succumbed to camp conditions or were executed. The life story of the SS commander in chief, Max Koegel, can also be found on this section as well as general documents illustrating the barbarian attitude of camp personnel towards the inmates.
Several documents also tell the stories of Josef Rozbicki and Grigori Romaschenko who were inmates at the Groß-Rosen concentration camp in Lower Silesia.
Peter Kleinmann and his brother Al, removed them from Flossenbürg at liberation fearing that they may be destroyed. Peter and Al wanted the world to know what was unimaginable at the time.
The first documents on this site tell the story of Vladimir Odvody, Jaroslav Rojt, and Vaclav Radl, three inmates of the Flossenbürg concentration camp. Located in a mountanious region of Bavaria, Flossenbürg was the fifth of several hundred concentration camps built by the Nazis. It was categorized as II, that is, for serious criminals who could nonetheless be rehabilitated or reformed. For the SS this meant that stringent detention and labor conditions were to be enforced. The remoteness of the camp in the last months of the war made it a very popular execution place. A total of 112,000 people were interned in Flossenbürg of which some 30,000 succumbed to camp conditions or were executed. The life story of the SS commander in chief, Max Koegel, can also be found on this section as well as general documents illustrating the barbarian attitude of camp personnel towards the inmates.
Several documents also tell the stories of Josef Rozbicki and Grigori Romaschenko who were inmates at the Groß-Rosen concentration camp in Lower Silesia.