Leirpollen (concentration camp)
Leirpollen was a concentration camp in Norway - in municipality Sør-Varanger[1] in Finnmark, during World War Two. Norway was occupied by Germany's military during Adolf Hitler's rule of Germany.
The camp was called an extermination camp (or death camp) for Russian [and other Soviet soldiers who were] prisoners, in a 1998 report by Norway's government.[2]
The camp had 150 prisoners, and [at least] it had Soviet prisoners.[3]: 6 Also suspected members of the Persfjord groups partisans on the Varanger Peninsula, were held in the camp.[4] In 1943, 11 prisoners were killed, by being hit with one [or more] clubs.[4]
History
[change | change source]The prisoners were moved (out of the prison camp) in February 1944, to another prison camp - Storskog - closer to the border between Soviet and Norway; [2]
Related pages
[change | change source]References
[change | change source]- ↑ NOU 1998: 12 - Alta bataljon. "I Kirkenes-området var det - foruten lærerleirene i Kirkenes, Elvenes og Sandnes - tre tyske fangeleirer med norsk belegg, nemlig Leirpollen, Storskog og Tofte"
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 NOU 1998: 12 - Alta bataljon
- ↑ Bache, Andrew. [rapporten] "De sovjetiske, polske og jugoslaviske (serbiske) krigsfanger i tysk fangenskap i Norge 1941-1945. Oversikt over 709 krigsfange- og arbeidsleirer for utenlandske krigsfanger. Fordelt på 19 fylker" fra bogen Norge under okkupasjonen : 25 rapporter med kartlegging og registrering av spørreundersøkelser og dokumentasjon . Utgivet af projektet "Norge under okkupasjonen"
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 11 Eitinger-rapporten - del 1