Posted on Dec 13, 2016

KZ NEUENGAMME

SGT John " Mac " McConnell

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Built in December 1938 by one hundred inmates transferred from Sachsenhausen concentration camp, Neuengamme concentration camp was established around an empty brickworks in Hamburg-Neuengamme. The bricks produced there were to be used for the "Fuehrer buildings", part of the National Socialists' redevelopment plans for the river Elbe in Hamburg.
http://www.jewishgen.org/ForgottenCamps/Camps/NeuengammeEng.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neuengamme_concentration_camp

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SFC George Smith

Posted 8 y ago

this is one of the many camp remains we visited in the early 1960 ... many of the Us Commanders felt the Military Personnel and their dependents should see the facilities to remind them of the evil some men do and that it did in fact happen...

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SGT John " Mac " McConnell

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Good lesson indeed George..

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TSgt Joe C.

Posted 8 y ago

Appreciate the history and video John!

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SGT John " Mac " McConnell

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Always A pleasure Joe.

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