List of subcamps of Neuengamme
Encyclopedia
This is an incomplete list of subcamps of Neuengamme complex. Neuengamme concentration camp was a labour camp in the Nazi concentration camp system. The camp was installed in Hamburg
Hamburg
-History:The first historic name for the city was, according to Claudius Ptolemy's reports, Treva.But the city takes its modern name, Hamburg, from the first permanent building on the site, a castle whose construction was ordered by the Emperor Charlemagne in AD 808...

, Germany from 1938 until 1945. In labour camps, millions of prisoners died through mistreatment, disease, starvation, and overwork, or were executed as unfit for labour.

The inmates were forced to work in several locations in northern Germany. The dimensions of these subcamps ranged from more than 5,000 to only a few inmates. Inmates were often transported to other subcamps or other working locations. Due to these facts and the demolition of the Neuengamme camp and its records by the SS
Schutzstaffel
The Schutzstaffel |Sig runes]]) was a major paramilitary organization under Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party. Built upon the Nazi ideology, the SS under Heinrich Himmler's command was responsible for many of the crimes against humanity during World War II...

 in 1945, the historical work is difficult and as yet, incomplete. For example, in 1967, the German Federal Ministry of Justice
Federal Ministry of Justice (Germany)
The Federal Ministry of Justice is a federal ministry in Germany.Under the federal system of Germany, individual states are most responsible for the administration of justice and the application of penalties. The Federal Ministry of Justice devotes itself to creating and changing law in the...

 stated the camp from 1 September 1938 until 5 May 1945. As of 2008, the Neuengamme Memorial organization (German: KZ-Gedenkstätte Neuengamme), an establishment of the Hamburg Ministry of Culture, Sports and Media, states that the empty camp was explored by British forces on 2 May 1945 and the last inmates were liberated in Flensburg
Flensburg
Flensburg is an independent town in the north of the German state of Schleswig-Holstein. Flensburg is the centre of the region of Southern Schleswig...

 on 10 May 1945. According to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum is the United States' official memorial to the Holocaust. Adjacent to the National Mall in Washington, D.C., the USHMM provides for the documentation, study, and interpretation of Holocaust history...

, the camp was established on 13 December 1938 and liberated on 4 May 1945.

More than 80 subcamps were part of the Neuengamme concentration camp. Beginning in 1942, inmates of Neuengamme were transported to the camp Arbeitsdorf. The camps differed in size from about 2,000 inmates to 10 or less. Several of the subcamps have memorials or plaques, but as of 2000, there was nothing at 28 locations. Dr. Garbe, from the Neuengamme Memorial Museum wrote, "The importance of the satellite camps is further highlighted by the fact that toward the ends of the war three times more prisoners were in satellite camps than in the main camp."

At the main camp

  1. Canalize of the Dove Elbe, a branch of the Elbe
    Elbe
    The Elbe is one of the major rivers of Central Europe. It rises in the Krkonoše Mountains of the northwestern Czech Republic before traversing much of Bohemia , then Germany and flowing into the North Sea at Cuxhaven, 110 km northwest of Hamburg...

     river: Elbekommando
  2. Klinkerwerk (brick factory) of the DEST
    DEST
    The D. E. S. T. , was an SS owned company originally created to procure and manufacture building materials for state construction projects in Nazi Germany DEST was a subsidiary company of Amtsgruppe W of SS-Wirtschafts- und Verwaltungshauptamt...

  3. Lagergärtnerei (camp plant nursery)
  4. Tongruben (clay cavities)
  5. Manufacturing plant of the Walther-Werke
  6. Armament factories of Messap and Jastram

In Hamburg

Subcamps and working locations in Hamburg proper sorted by name.
Camp Name Dates of use Est. prisoners Est. deaths No.
Blohm + Voss
Blohm + Voss
Blohm + Voss , is a German shipbuilding and engineering works. It is a subsidiary of ThyssenKrupp Marine Systems; there were plans to sell 80% of Blohm + Voss to Abu Dhabi Mar Group, but talks collapsed in July 2011.-History:It was founded on April 5, 1877, by Hermann Blohm and Ernst Voss as a...

Hamburg-Steinwerder 1 July 1944 – 21 April 1945 550
Bullenhuser Damm
Bullenhuser Damm
Bullenhuser Damm School is located at 92–94 Bullenhuser Damm, a street in the Rothenburgsort section of Hamburg, Germany. During heavy air raids many portions of Hamburg were destroyed including the Rothenburgsort section which received heavy damage. The school was only partly damaged. By 1943 the...

Men 1 October 1944 – 21 April 1945 1,000 552
Hamburg-Geilenberg
Oil Campaign of World War II
The Allied Oil Campaign of World War II was directed at facilities supplying Nazi Germany with petroleum, oil, and lubrication products...


Dessauer Ufer
Dessauer Ufer
Dessauer Ufer was a Nazi Germany subcamp of the Neuengamme concentration camp. The camp opened in mid-July 1944 for 1,000 Czechs and Hungarian Jewish woman selected from Auschwitz-Birkenau. After a month 500 more Polish-Jewish women were forced to work in the Geilenberg programme as oil workers to...

Hamburg-Veddel Men
– 22 April 1945 557
Hamburg-Geilenberg
Oil Campaign of World War II
The Allied Oil Campaign of World War II was directed at facilities supplying Nazi Germany with petroleum, oil, and lubrication products...


Dessauer Ufer
Dessauer Ufer
Dessauer Ufer was a Nazi Germany subcamp of the Neuengamme concentration camp. The camp opened in mid-July 1944 for 1,000 Czechs and Hungarian Jewish woman selected from Auschwitz-Birkenau. After a month 500 more Polish-Jewish women were forced to work in the Geilenberg programme as oil workers to...

Hamburg-Veddel Women
20 June 1944 – 30 September 1944 556
Eidelstedt 1 March 1944 – 1 May 1945 553
Finkenwerder
Finkenwerder
Finkenwerder is a quarter of Hamburg, Germany in the borough Hamburg-Mitte. It is the location of a plant of Airbus and its airport...

,
Deutsche Werft
Deutsche Werft
Deutsche Werft was a German shipbuilding company, located in Hamburg, Germany. It was founded in 1918 on initiative by Albert Ballin and with Gutehoffnungshütte , Allgemeine Elektricitäts-Gesellschaft and Hamburg Amerikanische Packetfahrt Actien Gesellschaft as investors.During World War II...

– 30 April 1945 554
Fuhlsbüttel Am Hasenberge 26 Prison 1 January 1943 – 8 May 1945 556
Howaldtswerke
Howaldtswerke
Howaldtswerke-Deutsche Werft is a German shipbuilding company, headquartered in Kiel. In 2009 it was the largest shipyard in Germany and has more than 2,400 employees. It has been part of ThyssenKrupp Marine Systems owned by ThyssenKrupp, since 2005...

,
Hamburg
558
Langenhorn
Langenhorn, Hamburg
Langenhorn is a quarter in the borough Hamburg-Nord of Hamburg, Germany. In 2006 the population was 40,425.-History:On January 25, 1332, Langenhorn was sold to Hamburg by the Count of Holstein...

12 September 1944 – 4 April 1945 ca 750 > 9 559
Neugraben Women 13 September 1944 – 8 February 1945 500 560
Poppenbüttel
Poppenbüttel
Poppenbüttel is a quarter in the borough Wandsbek of Hamburg, Germany. In 2006 the population was 21,930.-History:Poppenbüttel became a part of Hamburg in 1937....

Working location for Sasel 1161
Sasel Women 1 August 1944 – 4 May 1945 500 > 36 561
Spaldingstraße Hammerbrook
Hammerbrook
Hammerbrook is a quarter in the Hamburg-Mitte borough of the Free and Hanseatic city of Hamburg in northern Germany. In 2006, the population was 435.-Geography:In 2007, Hammerbrook has an area of , and was part of the Hamburg-Mitte borough....

1 September 1944 – 22 April 1945 562
Stülckenwerft Steinwerder – 15 April 1945 563
Hamburg-Tiefstack Women 8 February 1945 – 5 April 1945 500 564
Wandsbek
Wandsbek
Wandsbek is the second-largest of seven boroughs that make up the city of Hamburg, Germany. The name of the district is derived from the river Wandse which passes here. The quarter Wandsbek, which is the former independent city, is urban and, with the quarters Eilbek and Marienthal part of the...

2 May 1944 – 3 May 1945 565
Wilhelmsburg
Jung-Ölindustrie
566
Hamburg, Bombensuchkommando Men, brigade to search bombs 1 December 1940 – 551

Outside of Hamburg

Subcamps of Neuengamme in alphabetical order. Using the political division of Germany of the year 2000, there were at least 34 subcamps in Lower Saxony
Lower Saxony
Lower Saxony is a German state situated in north-western Germany and is second in area and fourth in population among the sixteen states of Germany...

, 9 in Bremen
Bremen
The City Municipality of Bremen is a Hanseatic city in northwestern Germany. A commercial and industrial city with a major port on the river Weser, Bremen is part of the Bremen-Oldenburg metropolitan area . Bremen is the second most populous city in North Germany and tenth in Germany.Bremen is...

, 9 in Schleswig-Holstein
Schleswig-Holstein
Schleswig-Holstein is the northernmost of the sixteen states of Germany, comprising most of the historical duchy of Holstein and the southern part of the former Duchy of Schleswig...

, 6 in North Rhine-Westphalia
North Rhine-Westphalia
North Rhine-Westphalia is the most populous state of Germany, with four of the country's ten largest cities. The state was formed in 1946 as a merger of the northern Rhineland and Westphalia, both formerly part of Prussia. Its capital is Düsseldorf. The state is currently run by a coalition of the...

, 5 in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania
Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania
Mecklenburg-Vorpommern is a federal state in northern Germany. The capital city is Schwerin...

, 3 in Saxony-Anhalt
Saxony-Anhalt
Saxony-Anhalt is a landlocked state of Germany. Its capital is Magdeburg and it is surrounded by the German states of Lower Saxony, Brandenburg, Saxony, and Thuringia.Saxony-Anhalt covers an area of...

, and 1 in Brandenburg
Brandenburg
Brandenburg is one of the sixteen federal-states of Germany. It lies in the east of the country and is one of the new federal states that were re-created in 1990 upon the reunification of the former West Germany and East Germany. The capital is Potsdam...

. Also, four subcamps were located in Alderney
Alderney
Alderney is the most northerly of the Channel Islands. It is part of the Bailiwick of Guernsey, a British Crown dependency. It is long and wide. The area is , making it the third-largest island of the Channel Islands, and the second largest in the Bailiwick...

, occupied Channel Islands
Occupation of the Channel Islands
The Channel Islands were occupied by Nazi Germany for much of World War II, from 30 June 1940 until the liberation on 9 May 1945. The Channel Islands are two British Crown dependencies and include the bailiwicks of Guernsey and Jersey as well as the smaller islands of Alderney and Sark...

, British Commonwealth
Commonwealth of Nations
The Commonwealth of Nations, normally referred to as the Commonwealth and formerly known as the British Commonwealth, is an intergovernmental organisation of fifty-four independent member states...

.
Camp Name Dates of use Est. prisoners Est. deaths wikipedia No. Webpage
Alderney concentration camps
Alderney concentration camps
The Alderney concentration camps were prison camps built and operated by Nazi Germany during its World War II occupation of the Channel Islands. The Channel Islands were the only British Commonwealth soil to be occupied by the Nazis....

 or Camp Alderney
See SS–Baubrigade I Lager Borkum
Lager Borkum
Lager Borkum was a Nazi concentration camp on Alderney, in the Channel Islands, named after the East Frisian Island of Borkum.The Germans built four concentration camps on the island, subcamps of the Neuengamme concentration camp...

, Lager Helgoland
Lager Helgoland
Lager Helgoland was a Nazi concentration camp on Alderney in the Channel Islands, named after the Frisian Island of Heligoland , formerly a Danish and then British possession located off the German North Sea coastline and belonging to Germany since 1890.The Germans built four concentration camps...

, Lager Norderney
Lager Norderney
Lager Norderney was a Nazi concentration camp on Alderney, in the Channel Islands, named after the East Frisian island of Norderney.The Germans built four concentration camps on the island, subcamps of the Neuengamme concentration camp...

 & Lager Sylt
Lager Sylt
Lager Sylt was a Nazi concentration camp on Alderney in the British Crown Dependency, the Channel Islands, in operation between March 1943 and June 1944. The Germans built one concentration camp and three Labour camps on the island, subcamps of the Neuengamme concentration camp...

Jan 1942 - Jun 1944 6,000 700 6a ,
Alt Garge
Alt-Garge a.d.Elbe
Near Bleckede
Bleckede
Bleckede is a town in the district of Lüneburg, in Lower Saxony, Germany. It is situated mostly on the left bank of the Elbe, approx. 20 km east of Lüneburg.Bleckede is located on the German Framework Road.-History:...

Later used as Alt-Garge UNRRA displaced persons camp,
a camp for Latvian displaced persons
24 August 1944 – 15 February 1945 15
Aurich
Aurich
Aurich is a town in Lower Saxony, Germany. It is the capital of the district of Aurich.-History:The history of Aurich dates back to the 13th century, when the settlement of Aurechove was mentioned in a Frisian document called the Brokmerbrief in 1276. In 1517, Count Edzard from the house of...


District Aurich
21 October 1944 – 23 December 1944 2,000 188 51
Bad Sassendorf
Bad Sassendorf
Bad Sassendorf is a municipality in the district of Soest, in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.-History:From February 15th, 1944 to April 4th or 5th 1945 inmates of the Neuengamme concentration camp used as the Eisenbahnbaubrigade 11 repaired rail tracks at the railway station Soest and between Bad...

SS–Eisenbahnbaubrigade 11
Barkhausen a part of Porta Westfalica
Porta Westfalica
Porta Westfalica is a town in the district of Minden-Lübbecke, in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. The name “Porta Westfalica” is Latin and means “gate to Westphalia”. Coming from the north, the gorge is the entry to the region of Westphalia...

18 March 1944 – 1 April 1945 77
Blumenthal See Bremen-Blumenthal 142
Boizenburg
Boizenburg
Boizenburg is a municipality in the Ludwigslust-Parchim district, in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, Germany. It is situated on the right bank of the Elbe, 53 km west of Ludwigslust, 25 km northeast of Lüneburg and 50 km east of Hamburg. Old Town is connected to the Elbe via a harbor...


(District Hagenow, Bezirk Schwerin (old))
– 30 April 1945 150
Braunschweig
Braunschweig
Braunschweig , is a city of 247,400 people, located in the federal-state of Lower Saxony, Germany. It is located north of the Harz mountains at the farthest navigable point of the Oker river, which connects to the North Sea via the rivers Aller and Weser....

,
Camp Büssing and Schilldenkmal
(Brunswiek) Büssing–NAG
Büssing
Büssing was a German bus and truck manufacturer established by Heinrich Büssing at Braunschweig in 1903. Büssing's first truck was a 2 ton payload machine powered by a 2-cylinder gasoline engine and featuring worm drive...

17 August 1944 – 26 March 1945 800 > 380 165 http://www.schillstrasse.de/
Braunschweig,
SS–Reitschule
Brunswiek,
SS – Riding school
167
Braunschweig,
Stahlwerke
Brunswiek
Steel factory
See Watenstedt 168
Braunschweig,
Truppenwirtschaft
Brunswiek
Military depot
169
Bremen-Blumenthal
Deschimag
1 September 1944 – 20 April 1945 176
Bremen, Behelfswohnbau Temporary housebuilding – 26 April 1945 175
Bremen, Borgwardwerke Borgward
Borgward
Borgward was a German automobile manufacturer founded by Carl F. W. Borgward . The company was based in Bremen...

 factory
– 12 October 1944 176
Bremen, Deschimag,
Camp Schützenhof
– 11 April 1945 178
Bremen-Farge
Farge
Farge is a small port on the Weser River in the City of Bremen. The bombing of Bremen in World War II attacked Farge targets, including the oil storage and the Valentin submarine pens.-Bremen-Farge concentration camp:...

1 July 1943 – 8 April 1945 179 http://www.geschichtslehrpfad.de/ http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/article.php?lang=en&ModuleId=10007390
Bremen-Neuenland 16 Aug 1944 – 28 Nov 1944 181
Bremen-Osterort 28 Nov 1944 – 1,000 183
Bremen-Vegesack
Bremen-Vegesack
-Geography:Vegesack is located at the mouth of the river Lesum, beside the Weser River . Abutting the district of Vegesack to the northwest is the district of Blumenthal, in the southeast the district of Burglesum...

– 30 Sep 1944 184
Darß
Darß
The Darß is the middle part of the peninsula of Fischland-Darß-Zingst on the southern shore of the Baltic Sea in the German state of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania. The peninsula's name comes from the names of the three regions making up the peninsula. There is a large forest in the Darß...

 - Wieck
Wieck am Darß
Wieck auf dem Darß is a municipality in the Vorpommern-Rügen district, in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany.geographyWieck is situated at the southern shore of the peninsula Darß at the coastal lagoon , between Born and the Baltic seaside resort Prerow.places of interest- harbour in Wieck- typical...

January 1941 – end-February 1941 50
Darß - Zingst, Germany
Zingst, Germany
Zingst is a municipality in the Vorpommern-Rügen district, in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany. It is located on the peninsula of Zingst....

Dalum
Dalum
Dalum is a locality situated in Ulricehamn Municipality, Västra Götaland County, Sweden with 635 inhabitants in 2005....


District Meppen
Meppen, Germany
Meppen is a town in and the seat of the Emsland district of Lower Saxony, Germany, at the confluence of the Ems, Hase, and Nordradde rivers and the Dortmund-Ems canal...

Command from Meppen-Versen – 25 March 1945 260
Drütte
Municipality Watenstedt-Salzgitter
Salzgitter
Salzgitter is an independent city in southeast Lower Saxony, Germany, located between Hildesheim and Braunschweig. Together with Wolfsburg and Braunschweig, Salzgitter is one of the seven Oberzentren of Lower Saxony...

1 September 1942 – 8 April 1945 3,100 316 http://www.gedenkstaette-salzgitter.de/english/index.htm
Düssin / Mecklenburg Men / agricultural work 15 September 1944 – 1 March 1945 80 1 328
Eisleben
Eisleben
Eisleben is a town in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany. It is famous as the hometown of Martin Luther, hence its official name is Lutherstadt Eisleben. As of 2005, Eisleben had a population of 24,552...


Command from Helmstedt-Beendorf
Men 346a
Fallersleben
Women camp
Volkswagen Aug 1944 – 8 April 1945 650 387
Fallersleben-Laagberg
(also Laagberg)
Volkswagen 31 May 1944 – 8 April 1945 800 794
Glasau
Glasau
Glasau is a municipality in the district of Segeberg, in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany.-History:From March 29, 1945 until May 5, 1945 a concentration camp was established near Glasau. It was a subcamp to the Neuengamme concentration camp....


District Segeberg
29 March 1945 – 2 May 1945 466
Goslar
Goslar
Goslar is a historic town in Lower Saxony, Germany. It is the administrative centre of the district of Goslar and located on the northwestern slopes of the Harz mountain range. The Old Town of Goslar and the Mines of Rammelsberg are UNESCO World Heritage Sites.-Geography:Goslar is situated at the...

SS–Bauleitung Goslar (Not Goslar subcamp to Buchenwald) 20 October 1944 – 25 March 1945 15 1 484
Gross-Hesepe
District Meppen
Meppen, Germany
Meppen is a town in and the seat of the Emsland district of Lower Saxony, Germany, at the confluence of the Ems, Hase, and Nordradde rivers and the Dortmund-Ems canal...

Command from Meppen-Versen – 25 March 1945 504
Hannover-Ahlem 30 November 1944 – 11 April 1945 568
Hannover-Limmer – 7 April 1945 570
Hannover-Linden (Mülhenberg-Hannover) – 7 April 1945 571
Hannover-Misburg Men 26 June 1944 – 7 April 1945 1,000 572
Hannover-Stöcken
Accumulatorenwerk
19 July 1943 – 8 April 1945 573
Hannover-Stöcken
Continental-Werke
7 September 1944 – 30 November 1944 574
Hausberge an der Porta a part of Porta Westfalica
Porta Westfalica
Porta Westfalica is a town in the district of Minden-Lübbecke, in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. The name “Porta Westfalica” is Latin and means “gate to Westphalia”. Coming from the north, the gorge is the entry to the region of Westphalia...

1 February 1945 – 1 April 1945 585
Helmstedt
Helmstedt
Helmstedt is a city located at the eastern edge of the German state of Lower Saxony. It is the capital of the District of Helmstedt. Helmstedt has 26,000 inhabitants . In former times the city was also called Helmstädt....

Beendorf
Beendorf
Beendorf is a municipality in the Börde district in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany.- History :During World War II a concentration camp was established in Beendorf. It was a subcamp to the Neuengamme concentration camp. From February 1944 until April 1945 about 2,500 women were forced to work in a pit. It...

women
underground armaments industry
– 10 April 1945 2,500 596 http://www.ok.shuttle.de/ok/stein-gym/kz.htm
Hildesheim
Hildesheim
Hildesheim is a city in Lower Saxony, Germany. It is located in the district of Hildesheim, about 30 km southeast of Hanover on the banks of the Innerste river, which is a small tributary of the Leine river...

– 6 April 1945 608
Hohwacht See Lütjenburg
Horneburg
Horneburg
Horneburg is a municipality southwest of Hamburg in the district of Stade in Lower Saxony.Horneburg is also the seat of the Samtgemeinde Horneburg.-History:Horneburg belonged to the Prince-Archbishopric of Bremen...

Philips-Valvo-Röhrenwerke
Philips
Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V. , more commonly known as Philips, is a multinational Dutch electronics company....

a) Mid-October 1944 – mid-February 1945
b) 24 February 1945 – 8 April 1945
– 31 March 1945
a) 250
b) 300
636
Husum-Schwesing
Schwesing
Schwesing is a municipality in the district of Nordfriesland, in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany.-History:From September 25, 1944 until December 11, 1944 a concentration camp was established near Glasau. It was a subcamp to the Neuengamme concentration camp....

25 September 1944 – 22 December 1944 643 http://www.nordfriesland.de/frameset.phtml?NavID=28.381&La=1
Kaltenkirchen
Kaltenkirchen
Kaltenkirchen is a town located on the outskirts of Hamburg in Germany. It is part of the Segeberg district, in Schleswig-Holstein...

Building a "Fliegerhorst" (Military airport) August 1944 – 17 April 1945 500 > 214 693 http://www.kz-kaltenkirchen.de
Kiel
Kiel
Kiel is the capital and most populous city in the northern German state of Schleswig-Holstein, with a population of 238,049 .Kiel is approximately north of Hamburg. Due to its geographic location in the north of Germany, the southeast of the Jutland peninsula, and the southwestern shore of the...

Clearing up work July 1944 – September 1944 50 727
Ladelund
Ladelund
Ladelund is a municipality in the district of Nordfriesland, in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany.-History:From November 1, 1944 until December 16, 1944 a concentration camp was established near Ladelund. It was a subcamp to the Neuengamme concentration camp....

Near Flensburg – 16 December 1944 2,000 > 298 796 http://www.kz-gedenkstaette-ladelund.de/
Langenhagen
Langenhagen
Langenhagen is a town in the Hanover district of Lower Saxony, Germany.-International relations:Langenhagen is twinned with: - Joinville - - Economy :...


Province Hanover
2 October 1944 – 15 April 1945 808
Lengerich
Lengerich, Westphalia
Lengerich is a town in the district of Steinfurt, in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It is situated on the southern slope of the Teutoburg Forest, approx...


District Tecklenburg
– 1 April 1945 200 > 7 838
Lerbeck a part of Porta Westfalica
Porta Westfalica
Porta Westfalica is a town in the district of Minden-Lübbecke, in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. The name “Porta Westfalica” is Latin and means “gate to Westphalia”. Coming from the north, the gorge is the entry to the region of Westphalia...

1 October 1944 – 1 April 1945 843
Lübberstedt
Lübberstedt
Lübberstedt is a town located in the district of Osterholz in the German state of Lower Saxony. It is located north of Osterholz-Scharmbeck. Together with the villages of Hambergen, Axstedt, Holste and Vollersode, it forms the Samtgemeinde of Hambergen....


District Wesermünde
Women August 1944 – 30 April 1945 500 883
Lütjenburg
Lütjenburg
Luetjenburg is a town of the district of Ploen, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany. It is located approx. northeast of Ploen, and east of Kiel.-History:thumb|left|Lütjenburg um 1895...

Men – 30 March 1945 197 893
Ludwigslust
Ludwigslust
Ludwigslust is a town in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany, 40 km south of Schwerin. It was the capital of the former district of Ludwigslust, and is part of the district Ludwigslust-Parchim since September 2011.-History:...

See Wöbbelin
Meppen-Versen
Meppen, Germany
Meppen is a town in and the seat of the Emsland district of Lower Saxony, Germany, at the confluence of the Ems, Hase, and Nordradde rivers and the Dortmund-Ems canal...

– 1 April 1945 927
Misburg See Hannover-Misburg 942
Mölln - Breitenfelde
Breitenfelde
Breitenfelde is a village in the district of Lauenburg, in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany. It is situated near the Elbe-Lübeck Canal, approx. 5 km southwest of Mölln, and 30 km south of Lübeck....

1 December 1944 – 30 April 1945 20 953
Neesen
District Minden
Working location for Porta Westfalica 1024
Neuhof
Neuhof, Lower Saxony
Neuhof is a town in the district of Hildesheim in Lower Saxony, Germany....

Neustadt in Holstein
Neustadt in Holstein
Neustadt in Holstein is a town in the district of Ostholstein, in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany. It is situated on the Bay of Lübeck , approx...

December 1944 – 1 May 1945 15 1049
Nutzen
Nützen
Nützen is a municipality in the district of Segeberg, in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany....

Porta Westfalica
Porta Westfalica
Porta Westfalica is a town in the district of Minden-Lübbecke, in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. The name “Porta Westfalica” is Latin and means “gate to Westphalia”. Coming from the north, the gorge is the entry to the region of Westphalia...


near Barkhausen-Lerbeck
See Barkhausen and see Lerbeck 1164
Salzgitter
Salzgitter
Salzgitter is an independent city in southeast Lower Saxony, Germany, located between Hildesheim and Braunschweig. Together with Wolfsburg and Braunschweig, Salzgitter is one of the seven Oberzentren of Lower Saxony...

-Bad
1 August 1943 – 500 1278 http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/article.php?ModuleId=10005539
Salzwedel
Salzwedel
Salzwedel of Altmarkkreis Salzwedel, and has a population of approximately 21,500. Salzwedel is located on the German Framework Road.-Geography:...


Province Saxony
Women 10 July 1944 – 15 April 1945 1,250 1282
Sandbostel
Sandbostel
Sandbostel is a municipality in Lower Saxony in northwestern Germany, 43 km north-east of Bremen, 60 km west of Hamburg. Coordinates: 53° 25′ N, 9° 8′ E. Population: 816...

15 April 1945 – Stalag X-B
Stalag X-B
Stalag X-B was a World War II German Prisoner-of-war camp located near Sandbostel in north-western Germany. Sandbostel lies 9 km south of Bremervörde, 43 km northeast of Bremen. Placed on swampy ground,with a damp, cold climate, it is one of the most notorious prisoner-of-war camps. Between...

1285 http://www.gedenkstaette-sandbostel.de/englisch/homepage.htm
Schandelah
District Braunscheig
Now Cremlingen
Cremlingen
Cremlingen is a municipality in the district of Wolfenbüttel, Lower Saxony, Germany. It borders Lehre, Königslutter, Sickte, and Braunschweig. Parts of it are adjacent to the Elm hills.-History:...

8 May 1944 – 12 April 1945 800 200 1292
Schwesing See Husum-Schwesing
Uelzen
Uelzen
Uelzen is a town in northeast Lower Saxony, Germany, and capital of the county of Uelzen. It is part of the Hamburg Metropolitan Region, a Hanseatic town and an independent municipality....

Men End 1944 – 17 April 1945 500 1491
Vechelde
Vechelde
Vechelde is a municipality in the district of Peine, in Lower Saxony, Germany. It is situated approx. 12 km southeast of Peine, and 10 km west of Braunschweig.- Municipal subdivisions :- Twinned cities :Vechelde is twinned with:...

, Braunschweig
Command from Braunschweig, Camp Büssing and Schilldenkmal September 1944 – March/April 1945 400 1509
Verden
Verden, Germany
Verden an der Aller, also called Verden or simply Verden , is a town in Lower Saxony, Germany, on the river Aller. It is the administrative centre of the district of Verden...

8 October 1945 – April 1945 8 1515
Warberg
Warberg
Warberg is a municipality in the district of Helmstedt, in Lower Saxony, Germany....


District Helmstedt
(from Braunschweig, Truppenwirtschaft) 5 June 1944 – 8 January 1945 8
Watenstedt
Salzgitter Watenstedt Leinde
Stahlwerke Braunschweig
Hermann-Göring-Werke
Men – 30 April 1945 (May 1944 – 7 April 1945) 2,000 Salzgitter#History 1540 http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/article.php?ModuleId=10005539
Watenstedt
Watenstedt Leinde
Stahlwerke Braunschweig
Hermann-Göring-Werke
Women 7 July 1944 – 30 April 1945 (– 7 April 1945) 800 Salzgitter#History 1540 http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/article.php?ModuleId=10005539
Wedel
Wedel
Wedel is a town in the district of Pinneberg, in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany. It is situated on the right bank of the Elbe, approximately south of Elmshorn, and mile, west of Hamburg.-Foundation and Middle Ages:...

 (Women)
13 September 1944 – 27 November 1944 500 1541
Wedel (Men) 17 October 1944 – 20 November 1944 500 > 27 1541
Wilhelmshaven
Wilhelmshaven
Wilhelmshaven is a coastal town in Lower Saxony, Germany. It is situated on the western side of the Jade Bight, a bay of the North Sea.-History:...


Alten Banter Weg
(Not SS–Baubrigade II) 17 September 1944 – 5 April 1945 1,200 234 1582
Wittenberge
Wittenberge
Wittenberge is a town of twenty thousand people on the lower Elbe in the district of Prignitz , Brandenburg, Germany.-History:...


(Old: District Wittenberge)
15 August 1942 (28 August 1942) – 17 February 1945 500 119 1587
Wöbbelin
Wöbbelin
Wöbbelin is a municipality in the Ludwigslust-Parchim district in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany. The municipality has a seat in the office of Ludwigslust from where it is administered...


District Ludwigslust
(Also referred to as Ludwigslust) 12 February 1945 – 2 May 1945 Wöbbelin concentration camp
Wöbbelin concentration camp
thumb|View of memorialthumbthumb|Bricks forming part of memorialThe Wöbbelin camp, near the city of Ludwigslust, was a subcamp of the Neuengamme concentration camp. The SS had established Wöbbelin to house concentration camp prisoners whom the SS had evacuated from other camps to prevent their...

1591
Wolfsburg See Fallersleben Arbeitsdorf
Arbeitsdorf
Arbeitsdorf was a concentration camp established by the Nazis in 1942.-History and the purpose of the camp:In 1936, a German car engineer by the name of Ferdinand Porsche designed a prototype of a car that would be affordable enough for all Germans to buy. He then showed his idea to the then...

(working village)
1595

Construction labor brigades

Inmates of concentration camps were centralized in construction labor brigades (German:Baubrigaden), organized by the SS
Schutzstaffel
The Schutzstaffel |Sig runes]]) was a major paramilitary organization under Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party. Built upon the Nazi ideology, the SS under Heinrich Himmler's command was responsible for many of the crimes against humanity during World War II...

, to clean up after air raids
Airstrike
An air strike is an attack on a specific objective by military aircraft during an offensive mission. Air strikes are commonly delivered from aircraft such as fighters, bombers, ground attack aircraft, attack helicopters, and others...

, remove unexploded ordnance devices and bombs, or recover corpses. Some of the brigades worked also at the Friesenwall — part of the Atlantic Wall
Atlantic Wall
The Atlantic Wall was an extensive system of coastal fortifications built by Nazi Germany between 1942 and 1944 along the western coast of Europe as a defense against an anticipated Allied invasion of the mainland continent from Great Britain.-History:On March 23, 1942 Führer Directive Number 40...

at the German North Sea
North Sea
In the southwest, beyond the Straits of Dover, the North Sea becomes the English Channel connecting to the Atlantic Ocean. In the east, it connects to the Baltic Sea via the Skagerrak and Kattegat, narrow straits that separate Denmark from Norway and Sweden respectively...

 coast — and fortifications in German cities e.g. antitank obstacles. Other brigades were placing or repairing rails or railway stations.
Brigade Locations Dates of use Est. prisoners Est. deaths Webpage
SS-Baubrigade I
Lager Sylt
Lager Sylt was a Nazi concentration camp on Alderney in the British Crown Dependency, the Channel Islands, in operation between March 1943 and June 1944. The Germans built one concentration camp and three Labour camps on the island, subcamps of the Neuengamme concentration camp...

Alderney Building the Lager Sylt 12 March 1943 – 1,000 100 http://www.subbrit.org.uk/sb-sites/sites/a/alderney/lager_sylt/index.shtml
SS-Baubrigade II Bremen Clearing up after air raids
Airstrike
An air strike is an attack on a specific objective by military aircraft during an offensive mission. Air strikes are commonly delivered from aircraft such as fighters, bombers, ground attack aircraft, attack helicopters, and others...

12 October 1942 – 15 April 1944 750
SS-Baubrigade II Osnabrück Clearing up after air raids 17 October 1942 – May 1943 250 86
SS-Baubrigade II Wilhelmshaven Clearing up after air raids Spring 1943 – November 1943 175
SS-Baubrigade II Hamburg-Hammerbrook Clearing up after air raids 7 August 1943 – April 1944 930
SS-Baubrigade II Lüneburg
Lüneburg
Lüneburg is a town in the German state of Lower Saxony. It is located about southeast of fellow Hanseatic city Hamburg. It is part of the Hamburg Metropolitan Region, and one of Hamburg's inner suburbs...

-Kaland
Diging anti-tank obstacles 12 August 1943 – 13 November 1943 155
SS-Eisenbahnbaubrigade 11
(Railway building unit)
Bad Sassendorf near Soest
Soest, Germany
Soest is a town in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It is the capital of the Soest district. After Lippstadt, a neighbouring town, Soest is the second biggest town in its district.-Geography:...

Building rail tracks
Rail tracks
The track on a railway or railroad, also known as the permanent way, is the structure consisting of the rails, fasteners, sleepers and ballast , plus the underlying subgrade...

 after air raids
15 February 1945 – 4/5 April 1945

Further names

Names found in some lists, probably mistake in writing or double-listings:
Name See No. Found
Altgarge
Altgarga
Probably mistake in writing See Alt Garge
Arbeitsdorf
Arbeitsdorf
Arbeitsdorf was a concentration camp established by the Nazis in 1942.-History and the purpose of the camp:In 1936, a German car engineer by the name of Ferdinand Porsche designed a prototype of a car that would be affordable enough for all Germans to buy. He then showed his idea to the then...

Autonomous concentration camp Volkswagen
Volkswagen Group
Volkswagen Group is a German multinational automobile manufacturing group. , Volkswagen was ranked as the world’s third largest motor vehicle manufacturer and Europe's largest....

29
Aumund Probably double-listing See Bremen-Vegesack No ref
SS-Baubrigade 1
SS-Baubrigade 2
Probably double-listing:
Roman number I = 1, II = 2
See SS-Baubrigade I or II
Baubrigade V - West No ref
Barskamp No ref
Bergstedt No ref
Borkum Probably meaning Lager Borkum
Lager Borkum
Lager Borkum was a Nazi concentration camp on Alderney, in the Channel Islands, named after the East Frisian Island of Borkum.The Germans built four concentration camps on the island, subcamps of the Neuengamme concentration camp...

Nazi name for a camp on Alderney (see there)
Osterort Probably double-listing See Bremen-Osterort
Bremen-Weser No ref
Brink-Hannover No ref
Ebensee
Ebensee
Ebensee is a market town in the Traunviertel region of the Austrian state of Upper Austria, located within the Salzkammergut Mountains at the southern end of the Traunsee. The regional capital Linz lies approximately to the north, nearest towns are Gmunden and Bad Ischl...


(subcamp to Mauthausen
Mauthausen-Gusen concentration camp
Mauthausen Concentration Camp grew to become a large group of Nazi concentration camps that was built around the villages of Mauthausen and Gusen in Upper Austria, roughly east of the city of Linz.Initially a single camp at Mauthausen, it expanded over time and by the summer of 1940, the...

)
Some prisoners from SS-Eisenbahn-Baubrigade 11 were deported to 334
Engerhafe Double-listing See Aurich
Fidelstedt Probably mistake in writing
See Hamburg-Eidelstedt No ref
Fliegerhorst Translation for military airport Probably Kaltenkirchen No ref
Fludwigslust Probably mistake in writing
probably double-listing
See Ludwigslust see: Wöbbelin No ref
Glassau bei Sarau Probably mistake in writing See Glasau
Gross-Fullen (Village to Meppen) No ref
Helgoland Probably meaning Lager Helgoland
Lager Helgoland
Lager Helgoland was a Nazi concentration camp on Alderney in the Channel Islands, named after the Frisian Island of Heligoland , formerly a Danish and then British possession located off the German North Sea coastline and belonging to Germany since 1890.The Germans built four concentration camps...

Nazi name for a camp on Alderney (see there)
Ibbenbüren No ref
Laasberg Probably mistake in writing See Fallersleben-Laagberg No ref
Norderney Probably meaning Lager Norderney
Lager Norderney
Lager Norderney was a Nazi concentration camp on Alderney, in the Channel Islands, named after the East Frisian island of Norderney.The Germans built four concentration camps on the island, subcamps of the Neuengamme concentration camp...

Nazi name for a camp on Alderney (see there)
Minden Maybe Neesen, district Minden No ref
Ohldorf Maybe Cemetery Ohlsdorf in Hamburg
Hamburg
-History:The first historic name for the city was, according to Claudius Ptolemy's reports, Treva.But the city takes its modern name, Hamburg, from the first permanent building on the site, a castle whose construction was ordered by the Emperor Charlemagne in AD 808...


working location for SS-Baubrigade II
No ref
Peenemünde or Karlshagen Subcamp to Ravensbrück 699
Schützenhof or
Schützenhof-Bremen
See Bremen, Deschimag, Camp Schützenhof
Sollstadt
Stöcken-Hannover See Hannover-Stöcken 1409
Steinwerder (Quarter of Hamburg) 2 camps, see above
Stuklenwert Probably mistake in writing See Stülckenwerft in Hamburg No ref
Sylt Probably meaning Lager Sylt
Lager Sylt
Lager Sylt was a Nazi concentration camp on Alderney in the British Crown Dependency, the Channel Islands, in operation between March 1943 and June 1944. The Germans built one concentration camp and three Labour camps on the island, subcamps of the Neuengamme concentration camp...

Nazi name for a camp on Alderney (see there)
Veerssen Probably mistake in writing See Meppen-Versen
Veleen

See also

  • Nazi concentration camp list
  • The Holocaust
    The Holocaust
    The Holocaust , also known as the Shoah , was the genocide of approximately six million European Jews and millions of others during World War II, a programme of systematic state-sponsored murder by Nazi...


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