Mehltheuer
Mehltheuer is a village and a former municipality in the Vogtlandkreis district, in Saxony, Germany. Since 1 January 2011, it is part of the municipality Rosenbach.
During World War II, Germany operated a subcamp of the Flossenbürg concentration camp in the village, in which over 300 Jewish women from German-occupied Poland and Hungary were imprisoned as forced labour. The prisoners were liberated by American troops in 1945.
There is a train station in the village.
References
- ^ Gebietsänderungen vom 01. Januar bis 31. Dezember 2011, Statistisches Bundesamt
- ^ "Mehltheuer Subcamp". KZ-Gedenkstätte Flossenbürg. Retrieved 3 April 2021.
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