Isolation blocks

The isolation blocks were built in 1942 for the initial purpose of holding 2,000 Soviet prisoners of war. These prisoners had already been brought to Flossenbürg in the autumn of 1941. Furthermore, the prisoners of war were in extremely bad physical condition and were housed in three prisoners' blocks close to the sick-bay.

Illness, malnutrition and intentional maltreatment caused a high mortality rate among the Soviet prisoners. The Soviet-Russian prisoners who ended up in these barracks were not registered in the camp books because they were under the “Kommissarsbefehl” of Hitler. That is why these prisoners were murdered en masse. Moreover, lack of accurate numbers makes it impossible to know how much Soviet prisoners were taken captive or have been murdered.

On that account, the four barracks were probably not only used for imprisonment, but also served as quarantine and death blocks.

Between the last two barracks was also a little hut, surrounded by barbed wire. This was the so called “abortion hut”, also known as the “death house”.

Just as with the other barracks, these barracks too were difficult to air. Furthermore, it was very hard (read: impossible) to heat the huts during the winter.

bron: KZ-Gedenkstaette Flossenbürg