Karl Flanner suffered more than five years as a slave labourer and as a prisoner in concentration camps, but, unlike many of his fellow workers and prisoners, he survived, and went on to establish a reputation [...] at one time weighed only 45 kilos. After about four years he was transferred to the concentration camp at Dachau and then to that at Buchenwald, where he was one of the prisoners who seized power from

was hostile to those who had fought in the West, and returned to Britain, at first to a resettlement camp in Scotland and then, in May 1946, to the Oakdale Training Centre at Blackwood in South Wales, where

decline. The company closed in 1939. The last director, Emile Godchaux, was sent to a Nazi concentration camp and died in 1942.

Nordhausen in the Harz mountains. At all research and production facilities prisoners from concentration camps were forced to work under inhumane working and living conditions, tens of thousands of them met their

of war. Whoever violates the strict rules of his rigid ‘work discipline’ is transferred to a prison camp run by the company itself. Two times, 1919 and 1949, France takes the initiative to have him sentenced