Bremen-Blumenthal

At the end of August 1944, the SS established a satellite camp of Neuengamme concentration camp in Bremen-Blumenthal. Initially, around 800 prisoners were transferred there. The camp was located on the "Bahrsplate", a large open space in Blumenthal directly on the Weser River. The prisoners were deployed to the largest shipyard in Bremen, Deschimag (Deutsche Schiffs- und Maschinenbau AG), which belonged to the Krupp group. Each day, one work commando was taken by ship on the Weser to the shipyard's main facility in Bremen-Gröpelingen, about ten kilometres away. When increased Allied bombing made this trip too dangerous, part of the commando was relocated at Christmas 1944 to the Bremen-Schützenhof satellite camp near the shipyard.

Another large commando at the camp also worked for Deschimag. However, these prisoners had to march around one kilometre to work each day. Deschimag had rented part of the grounds of the nearby Bremen wool-combing works, and it used the prisoners to build turbines for submarines here.

After the work commando had been transferred to the Bremen-Schützenhof satellite camp, another 1,000 prisoners were sent from Neuengamme main camp to the Blumenthal satellite camp. Some of these prisoners were probably used in the construction of the "Valentin" submarine pens in Bremen-Farge. According to a report by the SS Garrison Physician at Neuengamme concentration camp, Dr. Trzebinski, 929 male concentration camp prisoners were used as slave labourers in Blumenthal. There were many Belgium prisoners in the camp, as well as prisoners from France, the Soviet Union, and Poland. There were also app. 190 Jewish prisoners in the camp, most of whom were probably assigned to the work commando which was sent to the Bremen-Schützenhof satellite camp in December.

The commander of the satellite camp was Oberfeldwebel Richard-Johann vom Endt, a Wehrmacht sergeant who had been given the rank of SS-Oberscharführer when he took over the camp.

Between 7 and 9 April 1945, the prisoners from Blumenthal were transferred to the Bremen-Farge satellite camp, which served as an assembly camp for all male concentration camp prisoners in the Bremen region. The prisoners who were "able to march" were forced to walk to Bremervörde, where they were loaded onto cattle cars and taken back to Neuengamme main camp via Winsen/Luhe. Other prisoners were taken on foot or by train directly to the Sandbostel POW camp near Bremervörde. The Jewish prisoners in the Blumenthal camp were transported directly to Bergen-Belsen concentration camp.