Ulven police detention center

The Ulven police detention camp was set up on June 1, 1940 by the German security police on an old military training area in Os ( Vestland ) 30 km south of Bergen ( Norway ) . It was subordinate to the commander of the security police and the SD in Bergen. This was SS-Sturmbannführer Gerhard Flesch until autumn 1941 and then SS-Sturmbannführer Hans Wilhelm Blomberg .

Initially, the prisoners were mainly communists and Jews. The murder victims included Norwegian resistance fighters, Norwegian navy personnel, Soviet prisoners of war and Yugoslav partisans. From January 1943, the prisoners had to build a new, larger camp in nearby Espeland, which in the summer of 1943 replaced Ulven. A total of 800 prisoners had been imprisoned in the camp by then.

Individual evidence

↑ Kristian Ottosen: Labor and concentration camps in Norway 1940–1945. In: Robert Bohn (Ed.): Neutrality and totalitarian aggression: Northern Europe and the great powers in World War II. Franz Steiner, 1991, ISBN 3-515-05887-7 , p. 356.
^ Robert Bohn: Reichskommissariat Norway: "National Socialist Reorganization" and War Economy . Oldenbourg, 2000, ISBN 3-486-56488-9 , p. 89.
↑ 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. 433.

[1] Kristian Ottosen: Labor and concentration camps in Norway 1940–1945. In: Robert Bohn (Ed.): Neutrality and totalitarian aggression: Northern Europe and the great powers in World War II. Franz Steiner, 1991, ISBN 3-515-05887-7 , p. 356.

[2] Robert Bohn: Reichskommissariat Norway: "National Socialist Reorganization" and War Economy . Oldenbourg, 2000, ISBN 3-486-56488-9 , p. 89.

[3] 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. 433.