Isolation blocks (Флоссенбюрг)

 concentration camp, historical layer / disappeared object

The isolation blocks were built in 1942 for the initial purpose of holding 2,000 Soviet prisoners of war. The prisoners had already been brought to Flossenbirg in the autumn of 1941 and were in extremely bad physical condition. At that time they were housed in three prisoners' blocks close to the sick-bay.
As a result of illness, malnutrition and intentional maltreatment, mortality among the Soviet prisoners of war was particularly high. The barracks were probably not used for these prisoners of war, as originally planned, but as quarantine and death blocks. The special area of the isolation blocks consisted of four barracks and one lavatory barrack, which were separated from the rest of the prisoners' area by a barbed wire fence.