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Emslandlager
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series of 15 moorland labor, punitive and POWs-camps, active from 1933 to 1945 and located in the districts of Emsland and Bentheim, Germany
Background
Emslandlager ("Emsland camps") were a series of 15 moorland labor, punitive and POWs-camps, active from 1933 to 1945 and located in the districts of Emsland and Bentheim, Lower Saxony, Germany. The central administration was set in Papenburg. From 1985 to 2011, the history of these camps was memorialized in the Dokumentations- und Informationszentrum (DIZ) Emslandlager in Papenburg. As of November 2011, this role has been taken over by the Gedenkstätte Esterwegen (Esterwegen Memorial). In Emslandlager VII camp, seven Belgian Freemasons and resistance fighters founded Liberté chérie in 1943, one of the very few Masonic lodges established within a Nazi concentration camp.
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County of Bentheim
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Notable inmates
- Friedrich Kühne1912–1972
- Ernst August Papies1909–1997 · laborer
- Ernst Reinhold1899–1942 · ceramicist
- Otto Schieritz1889–1945 · resistance fighter
- Michael Unger1913–1969 · tailor
Karl August Wittfogel1896–1988 · sociologistKarl August Wittfogel (German: [ËvɪtfoËÉ¡lÌ©]; 6 September 1896 â 25 May 1988) was a German-American historian, sinologist, and playwright.
- Wilhelm Kaiser1903–1943 · warehouseman
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Sources
- EHRI Authority Record
- Wikidata entity
- Wikipedia — Wikimedia Foundation
- Wikidata — Wikimedia Foundation
- EHRI Authority List of Camps and Ghettos / USHMM Encyclopedia of Camps and Ghettos — European Holocaust Research Infrastructure (EHRI) / United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM)
- Wikidata (Q523342)
- Wikipedia
- Wikimedia Commons
- See /data-sources for our overall methodology.
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APA
World Prisons. (2026). Emslandlager. Retrieved July 21, 2026, from https://worldprisons.com/prisons/emslandlager
Chicago
"Emslandlager." World Prisons. Accessed July 21, 2026. https://worldprisons.com/prisons/emslandlager.
BibTeX
@misc{worldprisons-emslandlager,
author = {{World Prisons}},
title = {Emslandlager},
year = {2026},
url = {https://worldprisons.com/prisons/emslandlager},
urldate = {2026-07-21}
}