Sydspissen Police Detention Center

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The Sydspissen Police Prisoner Camp was set up in the spring of 1941 in Sydspissen near Tromsø in Northern Norway. It was used by the German Security Police (Sipo) and the Security Service (SD) to collect Jews and opposition members from the area north of Lofoten and to transfer them to other detention centers. It was subordinate to the respective commander of the security police and the SD in Tromsø ( Wilhelm Blomberg and from autumn 1941 Heinrich Jennessen ) and had a capacity of 100 to 120 male prisoners. As it soon proved to be too small, it was replaced in November 1942 by the new Tromsdalen police detention center near Krøkebærsletta .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 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 , p. 434.