1 May 1944 -Prisoner Revolt in Flossenbürg Subcamp
Soviet prisoners of war in Muelsen St. Micheln, a
subcamp of Flossenbürg, rise against their guards in the attempt to
escape. They torch their barracks and kill some of the prisoner work
supervisors (kapos). The SS crushes the revolt, preventing the escape of
the prisoners. Almost 200 prisoners die as a result of burns and wounds
sustained in the uprising. After Gestapo officials investigate, the SS
transfers about 40 prisoners whom they identify as leaders of the revolt
to Flossenbürg, where SS personnel later murder them in the camp jail.
The photograph above is of the well-known German Protestant theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer, who was executed in
the Flossenbürg concentration camp on April 9, 1945. The photograph is from the USHMM collection-DIZ Muenchen GMBH, Sueddeutscher Verlag Bilderdienst
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