As with Flossenburg, the camp at Gross-Rosen (a town in Lower Silesia about 35 miles from Breslau) was established by an SS owned company to exploit the nearby marble and granite quarries. The first prisoners arrived in August, 1940, and initially was a subcamp of Sachsenhausen. In May, 1941, the Gross-Rosen became an independent camp. The camp and its subcamps grew from 1,500 inmates at the end of 1941 to about 80,000 at the time the camp was evacuated in January, 1945. It is estimated that at least 125,000 inmates passed through Gross-Rosen and its subcamps.
Erik Lordahl, German Concentration Camps 1933-1945, History and Inmate Mail (2000). Referred to as Lordahl.
Feig, Hitlers Death Camps (1979)
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