Flossenbürg was a Nazi concentration camp established in May 1938 by the SS Main Economic and Administrative Office. Located in a remote area of the Fichtel Mountains in Bavaria, Germany, the site was situated near the town of Flossenbürg and close to the border with Czechoslovakia.
The primary purpose of the camp was to utilize forced labor for industrial production. Initially, prisoners were used to extract granite for Nazi architecture projects; however, by 1943, production shifted toward manufacturing Messerschmitt Bf 109 fighter planes and other armaments for the German war effort. While originally intended for "criminal" and "asocial" prisoners, the population expanded to include political prisoners from outside Germany and Soviet prisoners of war following the invasion of the Soviet Union.
The facility was characterized by an extensive subcamp system that eventually housed a significantly larger number of prisoners than the main camp site.