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Forced laborers quarrying granite at the Flossenbürg Concentration Camp

1940s

Documentation Center Nazi Party Rally Grounds, Nuremberg Municipal Museums

Documentation Center Nazi Party Rally Grounds, Nuremberg Municipal Museums
Nürnberg, Germany

In 1938 the paramilitary Schutzstaffel security staff (SS) founded the "German Earth and Stone Works," which immediately took out a lease to quarry granite in Flossenbürg. Inmates of the concentration camp had to perform heavy labor, using the most primitive tools, with no safety precautions and entirely inadequate food. The stone quarried here was destined for the Reich's major building sites, including the Nazi Party Rally Grounds in Nuremberg, where the Nazis raised monumental structures for their elaborate propaganda spectacles from 1933 to 1938.

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  • Title: Forced laborers quarrying granite at the Flossenbürg Concentration Camp
  • Date Created: 1940s
  • Location: Flossenbürg
  • Rights: NIOD Instituut voor Oorlogs-, Holocaust- en Genocidestudies, Bildnummer 67104
  • External Link: More about forced labor at the concentration camps
Documentation Center Nazi Party Rally Grounds, Nuremberg Municipal Museums

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