The*Neuengamme concentration camp*was a*German concentration camp, established in 1938 by the*SS*near the village of*Neuengamme*in the*Bergedorf*district of*Hamburg,*Germany. It was operated by the*SSfrom 1938 to 1945. Over that period an estimated 106,000 prisoners were held at Neuengamme and at its subcamps. 14,000 perished in the main camp, 12,800 in the subcamps and 16,100 during the last weeks of the war on evacuation marches or due to bombing. The verified death toll is 42,900.[1]After Germany's defeat in 1945, the British Army used the site until 1948 as an internment camp. In 1948, the facility was transferred to the Hamburg prison authority which tore down the camp huts and built a new prison cell block. After being operated as two prisons by the Hamburg authorities from 1950 to 2004, and a period of uncertainty, the site now serves as a memorial. It is situated 15*km southeast of the centre of Hamburg.
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