Ladelund is a municipality in the district of
Nordfriesland
Nordfriesland (; ; Low German: Noordfreesland), also known as North Frisia, is the northernmost Districts of Germany, district of Germany, part of the state of Schleswig-Holstein. It includes almost all of traditional North Frisia (with the e ...
, in
Schleswig-Holstein
Schleswig-Holstein (; ; ; ; ; occasionally in English ''Sleswick-Holsatia'') is the Northern Germany, northernmost of the 16 states of Germany, comprising most of the historical Duchy of Holstein and the southern part of the former Duchy of S ...
, in northern
Germany
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.
History
From November 1, 1944 until December 16, 1944, a
concentration camp
A concentration camp is a prison or other facility used for the internment of political prisoners or politically targeted demographics, such as members of national or ethnic minority groups, on the grounds of national security, or for exploitati ...
was established near Ladelund.
[ The prisoners were mostly Dutch, Polish, Soviet, French, Italian, Belgian and Czechoslovak.]Putten
Putten () is a List of municipalities of the Netherlands, municipality and Dorp (town), town in the Provinces of the Netherlands, province of Gelderland, Netherlands. It had a population of
in . It is located in the coastal area of the old Zui ...
in the Netherlands, who got deported during the Putten raid because the action was undertaken as a reprisal for a Dutch resistance attack on a vehicle carrying personnel from the Wehrmacht. It was one of the worst raids in occupied Netherlands during the Second World War.[The camp is listed as No. 796 Ladelund in th]
official German list
Ladelund was a subcamp to the Neuengamme concentration camp
Neuengamme was a network of Nazi concentration camps in northern Germany that consisted of the main camp, Neuengamme, and List of subcamps of Neuengamme, more than 85 satellite camps. Established in 1938 near the village of Neuengamme, Hamburg, N ...
.
See also
* List of subcamps of Neuengamme
Notes
External links
Memorial Ladelund website
Municipalities in Schleswig-Holstein
Neuengamme concentration camp
Nordfriesland
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