Hanover-Langenhagen satellite camp

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Memorial of the Hanover-Langenhagen satellite camp

The Hanover-Langenhagen satellite camp existed from October 2, 1944 to January 6, 1945 on what is now the industrial area of Brinker Hafen on Hackethalstrasse, not far from Am Brinker Hafen street in Hanover, at that time part of the municipality of Langenhagen .

It was a women's camp that was operated as one of the Neuengamme satellite camps .

Camp inmates

Forced laborers mostly of Polish and Russian origin lived in the camp. You were arrested in August 1944 during the Warsaw Uprising and came from the Stutthof concentration camp . The women also included Latvian, Lithuanian and political prisoners.

When the 500 women arrived at the camp on October 2, 1944, they were divided into two groups. Some of the women worked in Plant I in the manufacture of ammunition. The other part had to dismantle or repair wrecked planes. Reusable aircraft parts were brought to a hall in Plant II of the Brinker Eisenwerke, where aircraft were produced.

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Lettering of the upper part of the memorial plaque
The bottom of the memorial plaque ends with text in the native languages ​​of the forced laborers

The camp was one of several in which forced laborers for the armaments and war production of the companies located there: Brinker Eisenwerk , Krupp Stahlbau, Hackethal Draht- und Kabelwerke and H. Wohlenberg were housed.

It consisted of seven barracks that were built in mid-1944 on the site of the Brinker Eisenwerke. Four barracks formed the prisoners' quarters. The others contained the kitchen, toilets, washing facilities and the infirmary. The guards, probably older members of the Wehrmacht , were housed outside the camp. There were 20 female guards working inside the camp . The command leader is not known.

In a bomb attack on January 6, 1945, the women's camp was completely destroyed and then abandoned. With the exception of two victims, the women survived this attack and were then transferred to the Hanover-Limmer subcamp. From there, many women were deployed in the Brink ironworks. They were brought there either by truck or by tram. On April 6, 1945, the inmates were sent on the death march to the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, which was liberated by the Allies a few days later on April 15, 1945.

The history of this camp, the fate of the prisoners and the process of coming to terms with it in the post-war period were comprehensively documented in the mid-1980s.

Today a memorial at the former entrance of the camp, in the middle of which there is a memorial plaque, reminds of the women's subcamp at Brinker Hafen.

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Web links

Commons : Subcamp Hanover-Langenhagen  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Federal Ministry of Justice : Directory of the concentration camps and their external commands in accordance with Section 42 (2) BEG No. 808, Langenhagen / Province of Hanover
  2. ^ Hans Elger: Hanover-Langenhagen. In: Benz, Distel (ed.): The place of terror. Vol. 5. 2007, p. 432.
  3. ^ Rainer Fröbe, Claus Füllberg-Stolberg, Christoph Gutmann, Rolf Keller, Herbert Obenaus, Hans Hermann Schröder: Concentration camp in Hanover. Concentration camp work and the armaments industry in the late phase of the Second World War (= publications by the Historical Commission for Lower Saxony and Bremen. Vol. 35 = Sources and studies on the general history of Lower Saxony in modern times. Vol. 8). 2 volumes. Lax, Hildesheim 1985, ISBN 3-7848-2422-6 .

Coordinates: 52 ° 25 '3.1 "  N , 9 ° 43' 6.8"  E