Neuengamme

General

Neuengamme was a camp established near a town of the same name (about 12 miles east of Hamburg). The camp was opened in 1938 as a subcamp of Sachsenhausen, and the main activity was the production of bricks. With the success of the German campaigns in western Europe, a need for a large camp in western Germany developed in order to accommodate the political prisoners from the newly occupied countries. Accordingly, in June, 1940, Neuengamme became an independent camp. Eventually, over 80 subcamps of Neuengamme were established throughout northern Germany to service this major industrial area which included Bremen, Hannover, Hamburg, and Kiel. About 106,000 prisoners passed through Neuengamme and its subcamps. It is estimated that at least 50% died.

Philatelic Materials

Main Camp

Subcamps

Drutte

Farge

Watenstedt

References

Erik Lordahl, German Concentration Camps 1933-1945, History and Inmate Mail (2000). Referred to as Lordahl.
Feig, Hitlers Death Camps (1979)

http://www.hamburg.de/Neuengamme/welcome.en.html

http://fcit.coedu.usf.edu/Holocaust/GALL31R/06031.htm

http://fcit.coedu.usf.edu/holocaust/GALL31R/06024.htm

http://history1900s.about.com/library/holocaust/blcampsneuen.htm