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Neuengamme was one of northwest Germany’s largest concentration camps, and here accommodation, nutrition and sanitation were insufficient or nonexistent at best and deadly at worst, with guards being rewarded for brutal handling of prisoners. When British soldiers finally liberated the camp on 2 May 1945, nearly 43,000 men, women and children ...
The commandant, Max Pauly, and thirteen other members of the Neuengamme camp staff were tried by a British war crimes court at Hamburg, from the March 18, 1946, to May 13, 1946, eleven defendants, including the commandant, were sentenced to death by hanging; the remainder to various terms of imprisonment. Sources: Skalman.
View of the Neuengamme concentration camp. Prisoners stand behind the fence that separates the "protective custody" camp from the manufacturing sectors of the camp. In the distance are the crematorium and the Walther armaments works. Photograph taken between 1940 and 1945, Neuengamme, Germany.
Dortoirs à Wöbbelin, un sous-camp du réseau de camps de concentration de Neuengamme. Dortoirs à Wöbbelin, un sous-camp du réseau de camps de concentration de Neuengamme. Cette photo a été prise au moment de la libération du camp par les forces américaines. Allemagne, 5 mai 1945. Voir le document
British forces arrived on May 4, 1945. In early May 1945, the SS loaded some 9,000–10,000 prisoners—most of them evacuated from Neuengamme and its subcamps—onto three ships anchored in the Baltic Sea off the coast of Neustadt in Schleswig-Holstein. Some 7,000 lost their lives when the British attacked two of the ships in the course of a ...
Le camp de concentration de Neuengamme, 1942-1945 | Encyclopédie multimédia de la Shoah.
Nov 9, 2009 · Fritz Pfeffer died from illness in late December 1944 at the Neuengamme concentration camp in Germany. Anne Frank’s father, Otto, was the only member of the group to survive; he was liberated ...
