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Germany. The Wöbbelin camp, near the city of Ludwigslust, was a subcamp of the Neuengamme concentration camp. The SS had established Wöbbelin in early February 1945 to house concentration camp prisoners whom the SS had evacuated from other camps to prevent their liberation by the Allies. At its height, Wöbbelin held some 5,000 inmates, many ...
The Neuengamme concentration camp was a German concentration camp, established in 1938 by the SS near the village of Neuengamme in the Bergedorf district of Hamburg, Germany. It was operated by the SS from 1938 to 1945.
The one unique feature setting the claimed Neuengamme gassing(s) apart from all other gassings is the claim that the event is said to have taken place in plain view of the entire camp. Three witnesses even claimed that all camp inmates had to line up for roll call and sing a song while the victims of the gassings were carted by them.
Neuengamme. Barracks were set up and more prisoners were brought to the camp. By June 1940 Neuengamme achieved independent concentration camp status, and in the fall of 1941, thousands of Soviet prisoners of war were brought there. Eventually, there were 34,500 Soviet citizens at Neuengamme, making them the largest national group at the camp.
In the seventh trial surrounding the main camp of Neuengamme concentration camp, the defendant was a former prisoner. The locksmith Wilhelm Leers had been detailed by the SS first as the camp elder (Lagerältester) in the satellite camp in Osnabrück and later as a prisoner functionary (Kapo) in several work details at Neuengamme concentration ...
Concentration Camps: Neuengamme. Category » Concentration Camps ... Concentration Camp & Ghetto Money. Operation Reinhard. Documents
