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The new Neuengamme Concentration Camp Memorial was inaugurated on the 60th anniversary of the camp’s liberation in May 2005. Today, the Memorial encompasses virtually the entire grounds and 17 original buildings of the former concentration camp.
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- ‘I Was The First British (…) Officer to Arrive’
- ‘Extermination Through Labour’
- ‘Once, I Found A Dog’S Tooth in A Sausage’
- ‘All The Children Were Taken Away’
- ‘Each Accused Pleaded Not Guilty, and Each Was Found Guilty’
Sent by his commanding officer to investigate reports of a nearby prisoner camp, Lieutenant S Charlton, of the 53 Reconnaissance Regiment, arrived in Neuengamme on 5 May 1945. Several concentration camps had by then been liberated, and he must have been bracing himself for the worst. He found the camp completely empty, with a civilian policeman gua...
The phrase ‘extermination through labour’ – ‘Vernichtung durch Arbeit’ in German – was reportedly coined by Joseph Goebbels, the Nazi propaganda minister, in 1942. On opening the trial in 1946, Major S M Stewart, one of the prosecutors, noted: ‘the phrase in its conciseness and in its form with all its horrifying implications is Dr Goebells [sic] a...
While visiting the camp, Lieutenant Charlton came across large dumps of turnips, which seemed to have been the basis of the prisoners’ diet. Hunger was a constant torture, and many of the prisoners were too sick to eat what little food they were given. According to statements, there were three meals a day. In 1944, breakfast consisted of 1/3-1/4 li...
Kurt Heissmeyer was an SS doctor. He wanted a professorship and, to obtain one, had to produce original research. His theory was that the injection of live tuberculosis bacilli would act as vaccination. He practiced experiments on adults in Neuengamme, then requested children. Twenty Jewish children, ten boys and ten girls, were transferred from Au...
The trial of 14 men who had held leading positions in the main camp at Neuengamme opened on 18 March 1946. Held at the Curio Haus in Hamburg, it lasted until 3 May. Over the next two years, 33 trials relating to Neuengamme and its satellite camps would be held, bringing 99 men and 19 women to justice. The 14 accused were charged with committing a w...
In the spring of 2007, the second prison (Penal Facility IX), which was new errected in the end of the 1960s and located on the former site of the clay pits, was also closed and torn down. This area was redesigned as well, and the original tipper wagon tracks were excavated or rather marked.
The Neuengamme Concentration Camp Memorial encompasses almost the entire historic site of the concentration camp, including 17 original buildings. It is one of the largest memorials in Germany (57 hectares), and approximately 100,000 people visit here each year.
Feb 18, 2021 · Neuengamme Concentration Camp Memorial today. Following protests by groups of survivors and protestors, the site now serves as a memorial site, spanning an area of 600,000 square metres. 15 brick buildings remain, while only the outlines of the wooden barracks are still visible.
- Amy Irvine
Thousands of prisoners from Neuengamme concentration camp had been taken out of the city shortly before the British troops arrived. Many of the women, men and children from across Europe had only just survived the Nazi terror.
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The international commemoration marking the anniversary of the liberation of prisoners from the Neuengamme concentration camp is to be postponed to 2021. For the very latest information regarding the situation, please visit their homepage.
