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The occupation of Norway by Nazi Germany during the Second World War began on 9 April 1940 after Operation Weserübung.Conventional armed resistance to the German invasion ended on 10 June 1940, and Nazi Germany controlled Norway until the capitulation of German forces in Europe on 8 May 1945.
Nazi concentration camps in Norway (Norwegian: konsentrasjonsleirer) were concentration camps or prisons in Norway established or taken over by the Quisling regime and Nazi German authorities during the German occupation of Norway that began on 9 April 1940 and used for internment of persons by the Nazi authorities. 709 prison camps [1] [2] or concentration camps, [including some death camps ...
The German occupation of Norway began on 9 April 1940. In 1942, there were at least 2,173 Jews in Norway. At least 775 of them were arrested, detained and/or deported. More than half of the Norwegians who died in camps in Germany were Jews. [ 2 ] 742 Jews were murdered in the camps and 23 Jews died as a result of extrajudicial execution, murder ...
Espeland detention camp (Norwegian: Espeland fangeleir, German: Polizeihäftlingslager Espeland) was an internment camp opened in 1943 by Nazi Germany in occupied Norway next to the village of Espeland in the borough of Arna, Bergen. [1][2] Built to house prisoners after the closure of the nearby Ulven detention camp, Espeland was soon being ...
Vidkun Abraham Lauritz Jonssøn Quisling (/ ˈkwɪzlɪŋ /, Norwegian: [ˈʋɪ̂dkʉn ˈkʋɪ̂slɪŋ] ⓘ; 18 July 1887 – 24 October 1945) was a Norwegian military officer, politician and Nazi collaborator who nominally headed the government of Norway during the country's occupation by Nazi Germany during World War II. He first came to ...
Military exercise camp. First built. 1876. Operational. June 1940-1944. Ulven detention camp (German: Polizeihäftlingslager Ulven, Norwegian: Ulven fangeleir (" Ulven" means "the wolf")) was a concentration camp in Norway that was located in what was Os Municipality in Hordaland county (now part of Bjørnafjorden Municipality in Vestland county).
Norway's Resistance Museum also known as the Norwegian Home Front Museum (Norwegian: Norges Hjemmefrontmuseum) is a museum located at the Akershus Fortress in Oslo. The museum collection focuses on Norwegian resistance during the occupation of Norway by Nazi Germany from 1940 to 1945. The museum displays equipment, photos and documents from the ...
The first prisoners to Berg were a contingent of 60 male Jews arrested on 26 October 1942. They arrived by train and were force-marched into the still-unfinished camp. The barracks were uninsulated and lacked sanitary facilities, beds, or other furniture. Within two days, there were 350 prisoners under the administration of Leif Lindseth.