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In December 1938, the SS established a sub camp of the Sachsenhausen concentration camp in an abandoned brick factory in the Neuengamme suburb of Hamburg. In the early summer of 1940, Neuengamme became an independent camp and remained the main concentration camp in North-West Germany until 1945.
The estimated number of victims in Neuengamme is approximately 56,000. Thousands of inmates were hanged, shot, gassed, killed by lethal injection or transferred to the death camps Auschwitz and Majdanek. In the last weeks of the war, the SS decided to evacuate Neuengamme. This was the start of one of the worst death marches of the war.
7 hours ago · May 27, 2024. Located in the quiet suburbs of Hamburg, Germany lies a site of immense historical tragedy and importance: the Neuengamme Concentration Camp Memorial. From 1938 to 1945, the Nazis imprisoned over 100,000 people at Neuengamme and its 85+ satellite camps, subjecting them to forced labor, starvation, disease and wanton cruelty.
(ANg 2004-795) History. Neuengamme Concentration Camp. Located in south-east Hamburg, Neuengamme was the largest concentration camp in north-west Germany from 1938 to 1945. More than 100,000 people from all over Europe were imprisoned in the main camp and over 85 satellite camps.
Feb 20, 2024 · Brief History. On December 12, 1938, the first hundred prisoners arrived in Neuengamme from the Sachsenhausen concentration camp. The camp was located in a former brick factory that was purchased by the SS and was situated on the bank of the Elbe River in the Hamburg suburb of Neuengamme, in northern Germany.
Between 1933 and 1945, Nazi Germany and its allies established more than 44,000 camps and other incarceration sites (including ghettos). The perpetrators used these locations for a range of purposes, including forced labor, detention of people dee...
History. In the autumn of 1943 the fourth Neuengamme subcamp was established in Bremen-Farge. According to the register of inmates, from the time it was established, Farge was the second largest Neuengamme subcamp. (The only official number is from March 25, 1945.
