MEN OF XII CORPS UNITS THAT OVERRAN SUCH CAMPS AS
FLOSSENBURG WILL SEE THEM IN DREAMS FOR YEARS
(1) Tunnel entrance to the Flossenburg concentration camp near Weiden, Germany, where slave laborers by the thousand were worked and
starved to death, beaten, machinegunned and hanged. This gateway into Hell might well have borne the inscription from Dante's Inferno:
"All hope abandon, you who enter here." (2) General view of Flossenburg, 30 April 45, shortly after the camp had been overrun by the
97th Infantry Division. Workers were herded to labor and the nearby Messerschmitt factory and quarry. (3) Prison laborers prepared to
carry more victims to the Flossenburg crematory furnaces. 30 April. (4) Those that we found alive were walking skeletons. (5) The
notorious "Flossenburg Death March" started from this camp: SS guards attempted to march the workers beyond the reach of advancing
American columns, and shot down all those unable to keep up the pace, like those under examination by infantrymen of the 97th Infantry
Division. 1 May.