List of subcamps of Neuengamme

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Image of Neuengamme camp taken by an RAF surveillance aircraft on 16 April 1945

Below is an incomplete list of SS subcamps of Neuengamme camp system operating from 1938 until 1945. The Neuengamme concentration camp established by the SS in Hamburg, Germany, became a massive Nazi concentration camp complex using prisoner forced labour for production purposes in World War II. Some 99 SS subcamps were part of the Neuengamme camp system, ^[1] with up to 106,000 inmates. ^[2] The number of prisoners per location ranged from more than 5,000 to only a dozen at a work site. Beginning in 1942, inmates of Neuengamme were also transported to the camp Arbeitsdorf. "Toward the ends of the war three times more prisoners were in satellite camps than in the main camp" wrote Dr. Garbe of the Neuengamme Memorial Museum. ^[3] Several of the subcamps have memorials or plaques installed, but as of 2000, there was nothing at 28 locations. ^[3]

The inmates were forced to work under grueling conditions in various locations across northern Germany; often transported between subcamps and specific job sites. Due to subsequent demolition of the Neuengamme camp system by the SS in 1945 including its records, the historical work is difficult and still incomplete. ^[4] For example, in 1967, the German Federal Ministry of Justice suggested that the camp operated from 1 September 1938 until 5 May 1945 and became part of the Sachsenhausen in June 1940. ^[5] The Neuengamme Memorial organization (German: KZ-Gedenkstätte Neuengamme), an establishment of the Hamburg Ministry of Culture, Sports and Media, stated in 2008 that the empty camp was explored by British forces on 2 May 1945 and the last inmates were liberated in Flensburg on 10 May 1945. ^[6] According to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, the camp was established on 13 December 1938 and liberated on 4 May 1945. ^[2] Throughout World War II, millions of prisoners died in Nazi labour camps through mistreatment, disease, starvation and overwork, or were executed as unfit for labour. At Neuengamme, 1,700 people died each month in winter of 1944-1945, more than 50,000 in total. ^[2]

At the main camp

1. Canalize of the Dove Elbe, a branch of the Elbe river: Elbekommando
2. Klinkerwerk (brick factory) of the DEST
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	Location	Type	Dates of use	Est. prisoners [7]	Est. deaths [7]	No. [8]
Blohm + Voss	Hamburg-Steinwerder		1 July 1944 – 21 April 1945			550
Bullenhuser Damm	Hamburg-Rothenburgsort	Men, Children	1 October 1944 – 21 April 1945	1,000	>20	552
Dessauer Ufer	Hamburg-Veddel	Men	– 22 April 1945			557
Dessauer Ufer	Hamburg-Veddel	Women	20 June 1944 – 30 September 1944			556
Eidelstedt			1 March 1944 – 1 May 1945			553
Finkenwerder, Deutsche Werft			– 30 April 1945			554
Fuhlsbüttel	Am Hasenberge 26	Prison	1 January 1943 – 8 May 1945			556
Howaldtswerke, Hamburg						558
Langenhorn			12 September 1944 – 4 April 1945	ca 750	> 9	559
Neugraben		Women	13 September 1944 – 8 February 1945	500		560
Poppenbüttel		Working location for Sasel				1161
Sasel		Women	1 August 1944 – 4 May 1945	500	> 36	561
Spaldingstraße	Hammerbrook		October 1944 – 17 April 1945			562
Stülckenwerft	Steinwerder		– 15 April 1945			563
Hamburg-Tiefstack		Women	8 February 1945 – 5 April 1945	500		564
Wandsbek			2 May 1944 – 3 May 1945			565
Wilhelmsburg Jung-Ölindustrie						566

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, 9 in Bremen, 9 in Schleswig-Holstein, 6 in North Rhine-Westphalia, 5 in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, 3 in Saxony-Anhalt, and 1 in Brandenburg. ^[3] Also, four subcamps were located in Alderney, occupied Channel Islands, British Commonwealth.

Camp Name	Location	Type	Dates of use [8]	Est. # of prisoners [7]	Est. # of deaths [7]	Related subject	No. [8]	Source [9]
Alderney camps or Camp Alderney	See SS–Baubrigade I	Lager Norderney & Lager Sylt	Jan 1942 - Jun 1944	6,000	700		6a	[10] [11]
Alt Garge [7] Alt-Garge a.d.Elbe [8]	Near Bleckede	Later used as Alt-Garge UNRRA displaced persons camp, a camp for Latvian displaced persons	24 August 1944 – 15 February 1945				15
Aurich District Aurich			21 October 1944 – 23 December 1944	2,000	188		51
Bad Sassendorf	SS–Eisenbahnbaubrigade 11
Barkhausen	a part of Porta Westfalica		18 March 1944 – 1 April 1945				77
Blumenthal	See Bremen-Blumenthal						142
Boizenburg (District Hagenow, Bezirk Schwerin (old))			– 30 April 1945				150
Braunschweig, Camp Büssing-Schillstrasse	(Brunswiek)	Büssing–NAG	17 August 1944 – 26 March 1945	800	> 380		165
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 factory		– 12 October 1944				176
Bremen, Deschimag, Camp Schützenhof			– 11 April 1945				178
Bremen-Farge			1 July 1943 – 8 April 1945				179
Bremen-Neuenland			16 Aug 1944 – 28 Nov 1944				181
Bremen-Obernheide		Women	26 Sep 1944 – 4 Apr 1945	800			1085	[12]
Bremen-Osterort			28 Nov 1944 –	1,000			183
Bremen-Vegesack			– 30 Sep 1944				184
Darß - Wieck			January 1941 – end-February 1941 [7]	50
Darß - Zingst, Germany
Dalum  [ de ] District Meppen		Command from Meppen-Versen [7]	– 25 March 1945				260
Drütte Municipality Watenstedt-Salzgitter			1 September 1942 – 8 April 1945	3,100			316
Düssin / Mecklenburg		Men / agricultural work	15 September 1944 [7] – 1 March 1945	80	1		328
Eisleben Command from Helmstedt-Beendorf		Men					346a
Fallersleben Women camp		Volkswagen [7]	Aug 1944 [7] – 8 April 1945	650			387
Fallersleben-Laagberg (also Laagberg)		Volkswagen [7]	31 May 1944 [7] – 8 April 1945	800			794
Glasau District Segeberg			29 March 1945 – 2 May 1945				466
Goslar	SS–Bauleitung Goslar	(Not Goslar subcamp to Buchenwald)	20 October 1944 – 25 March 1945	15	1		484
Gross-Hesepe District Meppen		Command from Meppen-Versen [7]	– 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] – 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		1 February 1945 – 1 April 1945				585
Helmstedt – Beendorf		women underground armaments industry	– 10 April 1945	2,500			596
Hildesheim			– 6 April 1945				608
Hohwacht	See Lütjenburg [7]
Horneburg		Philips-Valvo-Röhrenwerke [7]	a) Mid-October 1944 – mid-February 1945 [7] b) 24 February 1945 – 8 April 1945 [7] – 31 March 1945	a) 250 b) 300			636
Husum-Schwesing			25 September 1944 – 22 December 1944				643
Kaltenkirchen		Building a "Fliegerhorst" (Military airport) [7]	August 1944 [7] – 17 April 1945	500	> 214		693
Kiel		Clearing up work [7]	July 1944 – September 1944 [7]	50			727
Ladelund	Near Flensburg		1 November 1944 – 16 December 1944	2,000	> 301		796
Langenhagen Province Hanover			2 October 1944 – 15 April 1945				808
Lengerich District Tecklenburg			– 1 April 1945	200	> 7		838
Lerbeck	a part of Porta Westfalica		1 October 1944 – 1 April 1945				843
Lübberstedt District Wesermünde		Women	August 1944 [7] – 30 April 1945	500			883
Lütjenburg		Men	– 30 March 1945	197			893
Ludwigslust	See Wöbbelin
Meppen-Versen			– 1 April 1945				927
Misburg	See Hannover-Misburg						942
Mölln - Breitenfelde			1 December 1944 – 30 April 1945	20			953
Neesen District Minden	Working location for Porta Westfalica						1024
Neuhof								[13] [14]
Neustadt in Holstein			December 1944 – 1 May 1945 [7]	15			1049
Nutzen								[13] [14]
Porta Westfalica near Barkhausen-Lerbeck	See Barkhausen and see Lerbeck						1164
Salzgitter-Bad			1 August 1943 –	500			1278	[15]
Salzwedel Province Saxony		Women	10 July 1944 – 15 April 1945	1,250			1282
Sandbostel			15 April 1945 –			Stalag X-B	1285
Schandelah District Braunschweig	Now Cremlingen		8 May 1944 – 12 April 1945	800	200		1292
Schwesing	See Husum-Schwesing
Uelzen		Men	End 1944 – 17 April 1945	500			1491
Vechelde, Braunschweig		Command from Braunschweig, Camp Büssing-Schillstrasse	September 1944 – March/April 1945 [7]	400			1509
Verden			8 October 1945 – April 1945	8			1515
Warberg District Helmstedt		(from Braunschweig, Truppenwirtschaft)	5 June 1944 – 8 January 1945 [7]	8
Watenstedt Salzgitter Watenstedt Leinde	Stahlwerke Braunschweig Hermann-Göring-Werke	Men	– 30 April 1945 (May 1944 – 7 April 1945 [7] )	2,000 [16]		Salzgitter#History, 1300–1982	1540	[15]
Watenstedt Watenstedt Leinde	Stahlwerke Braunschweig Hermann-Göring-Werke	Women	7 July 1944 – 30 April 1945 (– 7 April 1945 [7] )	800		Salzgitter#History, 1300–1982	1540	[15]
Wedel (Women)			13 September 1944 – 27 November 1944	500			1541
Wedel (Men)			17 October 1944 – 20 November 1944	500	> 27		1541
Wilhelmshaven Alten Banter Weg		(Not SS–Baubrigade II)	17 September 1944 – 5 April 1945	1,200	234		1582
Wittenberge (Old: District Wittenberge)			15 August 1942 (28 August 1942) [7] – 17 February 1945	500	119		1587
Wöbbelin District Ludwigslust		(Also referred to as Ludwigslust)	12 February 1945 – 2 May 1945			Wöbbelin concentration camp	1591
Wolfsburg	See Fallersleben Arbeitsdorf (working village)						1595

Construction labor brigades

Inmates of concentration camps were centralized in construction labor brigades (German:Baubrigaden), organized by the SS, to clean up after air raids, remove unexploded ordnance devices and bombs, or recover corpses. Some of the brigades worked also at the Friesenwall—part of the Atlantic Wall at the German North Sea coast—and fortifications in German cities e.g. antitank obstacles. Other brigades were placing or repairing rails or railway stations.

Brigade [7]	Locations [7]		Dates of use [7]	Est. prisoners [7]	Est. deaths [7]	Webpage
SS-Baubrigade I	Alderney	Building the Lager Sylt	12 March 1943 –	1,000	100
SS-Baubrigade II	Bremen	Clearing up after air raids	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-Kaland	Diging anti-tank obstacles	12 August 1943 – 13 November 1943	155
SS-Eisenbahnbaubrigade 11 (Railway building unit)	Bad Sassendorf near Soest	Building rail tracks 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. [8]	Found
Altgarge Altgarga	Probably mistake in writing	See Alt Garge		[13] [14]
Arbeitsdorf	Autonomous concentration camp	Volkswagen [7]	29
Aumund	Probably double-listing	See Bremen-Vegesack [7]	No ref	[13] [14]
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	[13] [14]
Bergstedt			No ref	[13] [14]
Borkum	Probably meaning Lager Borkum	Nazi name for a camp on Alderney (see there)
Osterort	Probably double-listing	See Bremen-Osterort
Bremen-Weser			No ref	[13] [14]
Brink-Hannover			No ref	[13] [14]
Ebensee (subcamp to Mauthausen)	Some prisoners from SS-Eisenbahn-Baubrigade 11 were deported to [7]		334
Engerhafe	Double-listing	See Aurich [7]
Fidelstedt	Probably mistake in writing	See Hamburg-Eidelstedt	No ref	[13] [14]
Fliegerhorst	Translation for military airport	Probably Kaltenkirchen	No ref
Fludwigslust	Probably mistake in writing probably double-listing	See Ludwigslust see: Wöbbelin	No ref	[13] [14]
Glassau bei Sarau	Probably mistake in writing	See Glasau		[13] [14]
Gross-Fullen	(Village to Meppen)		No ref	[13] [14]
Helgoland	Probably meaning Lager Helgoland	Nazi name for a camp on Alderney (see there)
Ibbenbüren			No ref
Laasberg	Probably mistake in writing	See Fallersleben-Laagberg	No ref	[13] [14]
Norderney	Probably meaning Lager Norderney	Nazi name for a camp on Alderney (see there)
Minden	Maybe Neesen, district Minden		No ref	[13] [14]
Ohldorf	Maybe Cemetery Ohlsdorf in Hamburg working location for SS-Baubrigade II		No ref	[13] [14]
Peenemünde	or Karlshagen	Subcamp to Ravensbrück	699
Schützenhof or Schützenhof-Bremen		See Bremen, Deschimag, Camp Schützenhof		[13] [14]
Sollstadt				[13] [14]
Stöcken-Hannover		See Hannover-Stöcken	1409
Steinwerder	(Quarter of Hamburg)	2 camps, see above		[13] [14]
Stuklenwert	Probably mistake in writing	See Stülckenwerft in Hamburg	No ref	[13] [14]
Sylt	Probably meaning Lager Sylt	Nazi name for a camp on Alderney (see there)
Veerssen	Probably mistake in writing	See Meppen-Versen		[13] [14]
Veleen				[13] [14]

See also

• Nazi concentration camp list
• The Holocaust

Notes

1. Overview (2013). "Satellite camps and memorials". KZ-Gedenkstätte Neuengamme. Retrieved 2013-04-10.
2. Overview (2013). "USHMM". USHMM. Retrieved 2013-04-10.
3. Höhler, Hans-Joachim (2000), Gedenkstätten für die Opfer des KZ Neuengamme und seiner Außenlager, Neuengamme: Arbeitsgemeinschaft Neuengamme and KZ-Gedenkstätte Neuengamme(in German, English, French, and Russian)
4. Staff, Etappen der Lagerräumung (in German), KZ-Gedenkstätte Neuengamme, archived from the original on 2007-09-28, retrieved 2008-09-26
5. Staff (1967-02-23), Verzeichnis der Konzentrationslager und ihrer Außenkommandos gemäß § 42 Abs. 2 BEG, Bundesministerium der Justiz , retrieved 2008-09-26
6. Staff, Zeittafel (in German), KZ-Gedenkstätte Neuengamme, archived from the original on 2007-08-30, retrieved 2008-09-26
7. Memorial Neuengamme (in German)
8. Refers to the official German list Verzeichnis der Konzentrationslager und ihrer Außenkommandos gemäß § 42 Abs. 2 BEG Archived 2009-04-23 at the Wayback Machine (in German)
9. The websites of the memorials are mostly in German.
10. "SiteName: Lager Sylt Concentration Camp". February 2003. pp. Subterranea Britannica. Retrieved 2009-06-06.
11. Bonnard, Brian. "Military History: A very brief history of Alderney" . Retrieved 2009-06-06.
12. Overview (2013). "Bremen-Obernheide". Satellite camps. KZ-Gedenkstätte Neuengamme. Retrieved 2013-04-10.
13. Holocaust Revealed Archived 2014-02-21 at the Wayback Machine
14. Concentration Camp Listing
15. "Neuengamme". United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. Retrieved 2022-02-02.
16. Later 5,000 men (Ref: Memorial Neuengamme)

External links

• http://www.kz-gedenkstaette-neuengamme.de/en/
• http://www.gedenkstaetten-uebersicht.de/en/europe/