Tromsdalen Police Detention Center

The Tromsdalen Police Detention Center was established in Krøkebærsletta near Tromsø in Northern Norway in November 1942 . It was used by the German security police (Sipo) and the security service (SD) as a replacement for the Sydspissen police detainee camp, which was too small . Mainly political opponents and some women were arrested. Numerous prisoners were deported to various concentration camps in Germany and to the larger Falstad and Grini camps in Norway. A total of 2,486 prisoners were detained in both camps by May 1945. The camp was subordinate to the respective commander of the security police and the SD in Tromsø ( Kurt Stage and, from May 1944, Oswald Poche ).

Individual evidence

↑ 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.

[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.