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 NERFINISHED
Max Pauly NERFINISHED
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 NERFINISHED
liberationDate May 1945
locatedIn Neuengamme, Hamburg NERFINISHED
locatedInState Hamburg NERFINISHED
locatedNear Hamburg NERFINISHED
mainLaborSector armaments production
brickworks
construction work
memorialName Neuengamme Concentration Camp Memorial NERFINISHED
notableEvent Cap Arcona disaster NERFINISHED
evacuation death marches in 1945
numberOfPrisoners over 100000
opened 1938
operatedBy SS-Totenkopfverbände NERFINISHED
Schutzstaffel NERFINISHED
partOf Nazi concentration camp system NERFINISHED
partOfEvent Holocaust NERFINISHED
World War II NERFINISHED
perpetratorOrganization SS Economic and Administrative Main Office NERFINISHED
postwarUse internment camp for Nazis
prison
prisonerNationalities Belgian
Czech NERFINISHED
Danish
Dutch
French
German
Jewish
Norwegian
Polish
Soviet NERFINISHED
usedFor extermination through labor
forced labor
political repression

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Anton de Kom imprisonedIn Neuengamme concentration camp
SS-Totenkopfverbände operated Neuengamme concentration camp
Fritz Pfeffer placeOfDeath Neuengamme concentration camp
Richard Baer servedIn Neuengamme concentration camp