Helmbrechts concentration camp

Death marches in World War IIHof (district)Subcamps of FlossenbürgVague or ambiguous time from February 2022

As a Nazi concentration camp for forced labor, Helmbrechts concentration camp was a women's subcamp of the Flossenbürg concentration camp founded near Helmbrechts near Hof, Germany in the summer of 1944. The first prisoners who came to the camp were political prisoners from the Ravensbrück camp in northern Germany. Later Jewish prisoners were brought.

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Helmbrechts concentration camp
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Pressecker Straße
95233
Bavaria, Germany
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