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World War II: Neuengamme concentration camp near Hamburg is liberated by the British Army.
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Neuengamme concentration camp
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Neuengamme was a network of Nazi concentration camps in northern Germany that consisted of the main camp, Neuengamme, and more than 85 satellite camps. Established in 1938 near the village of Neuengamme in the Bergedorf district of Hamburg, the Neuengamme camp became the largest…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
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Hamburg, officially the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg, is the second-largest city in Germany after Berlin and 7th-largest in the European Union with a population of over 1.9 million. The Hamburg Metropolitan Region has a population of over 5.1 million and is the…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
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