"I don't want to believe that we have been beaten. That we should no longer be human beings. Everything in me fights against it and my mind says: It's not true, it can't be that from today onwards all your ideas of law, justice and human dignity will be invalid!"
from: Wolfgang Langhoff, The Peat Bog Soldiers, Zuerich 1935
The Emsland Camps 1933-1945
The National Socialists and their henchmen set up a total of 15 concentration, penal and prisoner-of-war camps in Emsland. Twelve of them were located in what is now the district of Emsland, three in the district of Grafschaft Bentheim.
Short guided tours:
Every 1st Sunday of the month, at 11am and 3pm. Please contact us in advance for a tour in English.