Commandant's headquarters

 office building, concentration camp

The headquarters housed the administration of Flossenbùrg Concentration Camp. Along with other offices those of the commandant and the head of the "protective custody" camp were located here as well as the prisoners' registry. It was also here that the SS interrogated and tortured prisoners. As in other concentration camps the gateway was planned to be the central entrance to the prisoners' camp. However, Flossenbùrg Concentration Camp was never completed and so the prisoners' area started 50 metres behind the gateway.
The ad­min­is­tra­tion and sur­veil­lance of con­cen­tra­tion camps was one of the cen­tral duties of the SS (Schutz­staf­fel). SS mem­bers em­ployed in the camps were all mem­bers of the Death’s Head Di­vi­sions (Toten­kopf­ver­bände). The SS con­ceived of it­self as an ideo­log­i­cal order and racial elite.Ap­prox­i­mate­ly nine­ty SS mem­bers worked in the com­mand staff at Floss­en­bürg. By spring 1940, the guard units had grown to a force of near­ly 300. By 1945, with the con­struc­tion of sub­camps, the guard units ex­pand­ed to ap­prox­i­mate­ly 2,500 men and 500 wom­en. Af­ter the start of the war, many younger SS men were sent to the front. The SS lead­er­ship then en­gaged older men, air force sol­diers, wom­en, and for­eign na­tion­als for duty in the camps.

Af­ter the war, the ma­jo­ri­ty of SS mem­bers re­ceived only light pun­ish­ment for the crimes they com­mit­ted at Floss­en­bürg.