Flossenbürg-Königstein

Names

• Königstein
• Koenigstein/Elbe
• Außenlager Königstein

Type

• Concentration camp
• Subcamp of Flossenbürg
• Forced labour camp

Dates

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• Opened: 1944-11-15 (transport of 200 men from Buchenwald-Böhlen
• Closed:

Locations

Camp location

Struppen

• Initially they were housed in the inn of the neighboring city Struppen and had to erect a provisional camp out of pressed cardboard, the so-called round Finnish tents, within the Königstein Fortress.

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Festung Königstein

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"further into the forest"

• the prisoners were thus moved further into the forest to a barracks camp, which was fenced in with barbed wire, equipped with watchtowers, and consisted of 10 prisoner barracks, a kitchen, and an infirmary.

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Organisations involved

• OT Sonderbauleitung Koenigstein

Current status

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No memorial known at this time.

Resources

Bibliography

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Encyclopedia Volume I: part A page 623