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- Concentration camp prisoners were forced to work for business ventures owned by the SS, which then profited financially from their labour. Neuengamme concentration camp was initially established as a “work camp” for the production of clinker bricks.
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Jan 27, 2022 · Prisoners worked 10 hours a day in inhumane conditions, and it was usually heavy work. In the Husum Aussenkommando, for instance, they dug anti-tank ditches in heavy, sodden marshland. Others...
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In the beginning, German nationals were the largest group of prisoners in Neuengamme concentration camp. In total, 9.500 Germans were imprisoned in the camp over the years, including roughly 400 women who were deployed in the satellite camps, and not in the main camp.
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.
From 1941 onwards, the majority of prisoners in Neuengamme concentration camp came from countries occupied by Germany. Between 1941 and 1942, Polish prisoners were the largest group in the camp; from 1942 and 1943 on, Soviet prisoners were the majority.
In 1943 and 1944, two brick buildings with four blocks for housing 500 to 700 prisoners each were erected. From 1944 to the end of the war, bunks were shared by two, and even three prisoners as a rule. This overcrowded situation made it impossible to get a good night’s rest.
May 27, 2024 · Prisoners endured back-breaking labor, often working 12 hours a day on construction projects, digging canals, making bricks, and in armaments production for companies like Messap, Jastram, and Walther-Werke. The Nazis saw the camp as a profitable source of slave labor for the war effort.
Feb 20, 2024 · As British troops approached Neuengamme, the SS sent 9,000 prisoners onto three seized ships. The prisoners were crammed into the ships' holds, and many died of hunger, thirst, and disease. Some 7,000 were killed when the British—unaware there were prisoners on board—attacked two of the ships.
