Editing Bergen-Belsen concentration camp (section)

===''Außenlager'' (satellite camps)===
{{main|List of subcamps of Bergen-Belsen}}
Bergen-Belsen concentration camp had three satellite camps.<ref>[http://www.deutschland-ein-denkmal.de/ded/database/category;jsessionid=F525331306A130FBD111E2D0ED447E2D?cat=kz.beb List of places: Concentration camps and outlying camps Concentration camp Bergen-Belsen] in 'List of national socialist camps and detention sites 1933 - 1945 Germany - A Memorial', www.deutschland-ein-denkmal.de, accessed 15 October 2023</ref> These were at regional armament works. Around 2,000 female concentration camp prisoners were forced to work there. Those who were too weak or sick to continue with their work were brought to Bergen-Belsen.<ref name="New Exhibition Guide"/>{{rp|204–205}}

''Außenlager Bomlitz-Benefeld'' at [[Bomlitz]] near [[Fallingbostel]] was in use from September 3 to October 15, 1944. It was located at the facility of Eibia GmbH, a gunpowder works. Around 600 female Polish Jews were used for construction and production work.<ref name="New Exhibition Guide"/>{{rp|204}}

''Außenlager Hambühren-Ovelgönne'' (Lager III, Waldeslust) at [[Hambühren]] south of [[Winsen an der Aller|Winsen]] was in use from August 23, 1944, to February 4, 1945. It was an abandoned [[potash]] mine, now intended as an underground production site for Bremen plane manufacturer [[Focke-Wulf]]. Around 400 prisoners, mostly female Polish or Hungarian Jews, were forced to prepare the facility and to help lay train tracks to it. This was done for the company [[Hochtief]].<ref name="New Exhibition Guide"/>{{rp|204}}

''Außenlager Unterlüß-Altensothrieth'' (Tannenberglager) east of Bergen was in use from late August 1944 to April 13, 1945. It was located at [[Unterlüß]], where the [[Rheinmetall|Rheinmetall-Borsig AG]] had a large test site. Up to 900 female Polish, Hungarian, Romanian, Yugoslavian and Czech Jews had to clear forest, do construction work or work in munitions production.<ref name="New Exhibition Guide"/>{{rp|204}}

Prisoners were guarded by SS staff and received no wages for their work. The companies instead reimbursed the SS for the labour supplied. Wage taxes were also levied by local authorities.<ref name="New Exhibition Guide"/>{{rp|204–205}}