Grini Police Detention Center
The Grini Police Detention Center is a former concentration camp in the Norwegian municipality of Bærum , southwest of Oslo . The camp was originally built in 1939 as a women's prison. At the time of the German invasion, it was not yet operational. After the occupation of Norway by German troops, it was initially used as a Wehrmacht prison camp from April 24, 1940 . From June 14, 1941, the National Socialists converted it into an SS concentration camp for the permanent internment of political prisoners from all over Norway . The first prisoner was Andreas Møll Hansen, a student who was active in the Norwegian underground. The most famous prisoner was the later long-time Norwegian Prime Minister Einar Gerhardsen .
By the end of the war, 20,000 people were imprisoned here, up to 5,000 of them at the same time. Torture by the Gestapo and the police has been documented from the camp . Around 3,400 prisoners were deported from Grini to concentration camps in Germany or areas occupied by Germany . The number of prisoners who died - apart from eight executions - is unknown.
After the war the prison was renamed Ilebu and used to detain Norwegians imprisoned for high treason . The temporary closure took place in 1950. Just two years later, it was reopened as a prison for long-term inmates under the name Ila landsfengsel og sikringsanstalt .
literature
- Ralph Tuchtenhagen : Small history of Norway. Verlag CH Beck, Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-406-58453-4 , p. 156.
- Dirk Riedel: Norway. In: Wolfgang Benz , Barbara Distel (eds.): The place of terror . History of the National Socialist Concentration Camps. Volume 9: Labor education camps, ghettos, youth protection camps, police detention camps, special camps, gypsy camps, forced labor camps. CH Beck, Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-406-57238-8 , pp. 430-445.
Known inmates
Web links
- Museum of the Grini Police Detention Center , portal of memorial sites to places of remembrance in Europe
Coordinates: 59 ° 57 ′ 12.4 " N , 10 ° 34 ′ 57.2" E