Flossenbürg was a Nazi concentration camp built in May 1938 by the SS Main Economic and Administrative Office. Unlike other concentration camps, it was located in a remote area, in the Fichtel Mountai
The camp after liberation
Albert Speer's plan for Berlin
Gate of Flossenbürg with the Nazi slogan Arbeit macht frei ("Work sets you free")
Subcamps shown with pre–World War II and current Czech borders in medium gray and the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia in dark gray
Wilhelm Canaris
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Wilhelm Franz Canaris was a German admiral and the chief of the Abwehr from 1935 to 1944. Initially a supporter of Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party, Canaris turned against Hitler and committed acts of
Flossenbürg concentration camp
…last days of the camp's existence, the SS executed thirteen Allied secret agents and seven prominent German anti-Nazis, including former Abwehr head Wilhelm Canaris and the Confessing Church theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer. In all, the SS had executed at least 2,500 people at Flossenbürg. A total of 12,000 prisoners…
Canaris in 1940
Canaris (second row, second from right) with other officers of the Marinekommandoamt (Naval Command Office), 1923
Canaris as a Korvettenkapitän, 1924–31
South African Minister of Defence Oswald Pirow walking in front of an honor guard during his visit to Berlin, to his left is Canaris, November 1938