Neuengamme concentration camp

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Neuengamme concentration camp was a Nazi SS concentration camp near Hamburg, Germany, notorious for its brutal forced labor conditions and the deaths of tens of thousands of prisoners during World War II.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Nazi concentration camp
SS concentration camp
closed 1945
commandant Martin Gottfried Weiss
Max Pauly
commemorates victims of Nazi persecution
convertedToMainCamp 1940
country Nazi Germany
currentUse memorial site
museum
estimatedDeaths over 42000
hadSubcamps over 80 subcamps
hasCategory History of Hamburg
Holocaust memorials in Germany
Nazi concentration camps in Germany
liberatedBy British Army
liberationDate May 1945
locatedIn Neuengamme, Hamburg
locatedInState Hamburg
locatedNear Hamburg
mainLaborSector armaments production
brickworks
construction work
memorialName Neuengamme Concentration Camp Memorial
notableEvent Cap Arcona disaster
evacuation death marches in 1945
numberOfPrisoners over 100000
opened 1938
operatedBy SS-Totenkopfverbände
Schutzstaffel
linked to: Schutzstaffel (SS)
partOf Nazi concentration camp system
linked to: Nazi camp system
partOfEvent Holocaust
World War II
perpetratorOrganization SS Economic and Administrative Main Office
postwarUse internment camp for Nazis
prison
prisonerNationalities Belgian
Czech
Danish
Dutch
French
German
Jewish
Norwegian
Polish
Soviet
usedFor extermination through labor
forced labor
political repression

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Fritz Pfeffer placeOfDeath Neuengamme concentration camp
SS-Totenkopfverbände operated Neuengamme concentration camp
Anton de Kom imprisonedIn Neuengamme concentration camp
Richard Baer servedIn Neuengamme concentration camp
Amersfoort concentration camp deportationDestination Neuengamme concentration camp
Neuengamme concentration camp memorialName Neuengamme Concentration Camp Memorial
linked to: Neuengamme concentration camp
White Buses operatedInCamp Neuengamme concentration camp
Office Group D (Concentration Camps) oversaw Neuengamme concentration camp
Amersfoort camp usedForDeportationTo Neuengamme concentration camp