Flossenbürg
Village in north-east Bavaria and the site of a Nazi concentration camp. Dietrich Bonhoeffer and four officers of the German resistance were tried there by an SS court-martial on 8 April 1945 and hanged the next morning.
The German court that later tried the prosecutor describes Flossenbürg concentration camp as lying north-east of Weiden in the Upper Palatinate. On 8 April 1945 an SS court-martial sat there, and on the morning of 9 April the five men it had condemned, Dietrich Bonhoeffer among them, were hanged (Bundesgerichtshof, judgment of 19 June 1956 (1 StR 50/56), Gründe A.I). See the Execution of Dietrich Bonhoeffer.
What happened here
- 9 April 1945, firm dateThe Execution of Dietrich Bonhoeffer
The pastor and theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer, held for two years for his part in the German resistance, is condemned by an SS court-martial at Flossenbürg concentration camp and hanged the next morning. His letters from prison are published in 1951.