Video: 'Liberation of Flossenburg Concentration Camp'
(Monday, April 23, 1945; part of The Holocaust during World War II) — The remaining 3,000 inmates, including 1,400 women, at the Nazi concentration camp Flossenbürg in the Upper Palatinate region of Bavaria, Germany, near the border with Czechoslovakia, were liberated today by the U.S. Army.
More than 96,000 prisoners passed through the camp since it opened in May 1938. About 30,000 died there.