⁹Although Hecht occasionally refers to Flossenbürg as an “annex” of Buchenwald, his precise use of this term is unclear since the two camps were geographically many miles apart. In the week before Flossenbürg was liberated by the Allied Forces on April 23, 1945, however, the camp had housed seven thousand prisoners from Buchenwald, according to the timeline provided by the U.S. Holocaust Museum. This association may well have persuaded Hecht, interviewing the prisoners, that the two camps were more closely affiliated than was actually the case. My thanks to Diederik Oostdijk for this suggestion.