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As a Nazi concentration camp for forced labor, Helmbrechts concentration camp was a women's subcamp of the Flossenbürg concentration camp founded near Helmbrechts near Hof, Germany in the summer of 1944. The first prisoners who came to the camp were political prisoners from the Ravensbrück camp in northern Germany. Later Jewish prisoners were brought.
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World Prisons. (2026). Helmbrechts concentration camp. Retrieved July 21, 2026, from https://worldprisons.com/prisons/helmbrechts-concentration-camp
"Helmbrechts concentration camp." World Prisons. Accessed July 21, 2026. https://worldprisons.com/prisons/helmbrechts-concentration-camp.
@misc{worldprisons-helmbrechts-concentration-c,
author = {{World Prisons}},
title = {Helmbrechts concentration camp},
year = {2026},
url = {https://worldprisons.com/prisons/helmbrechts-concentration-camp},
urldate = {2026-07-21}
}