The crematorium As every other concentration camp, KZ Flossenbürg too had a crematorium. Prisoners (the so-called “corpse commando”) carried their deceased fellow prisoners via a granite ramp to the crematorium. From the autumn of 1944 onwards the number of people killed increased enormously. Therefore a tunnel with a ramp was constructed near the quarantine blocks in order to transport the bodies to the crematorium. The entrance was secured with an iron grating. Contrary to what happened in other concentration camps, members of the corpse commando were left alive and used for other jobs. An other commando who was used in the crematorium had to smash skulls and large bones which were not entirely burned up. The crushed bones were thrown into a hole with the other ashes. (According to a Russian survivor and eyewitness from St Petersburg, this commando was particularly deployed at the end of the war.) The building, constructed in 1940, consisted of three small spaces. One room had a stone table for dissection. Corpses, shoes, clothes and the like were collected in another room an one room included an incinerator for burning the prisoners' bodies. At the end of the war, it was impossible to cremate the steadily increasing number of killed and succumbed prisoners. Consequently, large stakes were built in order to dispose of the corpses as soon as possible. The stakes consisted of alternately one layer of wood and one layer of corpses. In this way, the real number of victims could be obscured. After 1945, ramp, tunnel and crematorium became important reminders and symbols of the KZ Flossenbürg. bron: KZ-Gedenkstaette Flossenbürg | 
