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Ulven detention camp

Coordinates: 60°12′21″N 5°26′59″E / 60.2058°N 5.4497°E / 60.2058; 5.4497
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Ulven
Concentration camp
Ulven detention camp is located in Vestland
Ulven detention camp
Location of Ulven within Vestland
Ulven detention camp is located in Norway
Ulven detention camp
Ulven detention camp (Norway)
Coordinates60°12′21″N 5°26′59″E / 60.2058°N 5.4497°E / 60.2058; 5.4497
Other namesNorwegian: Ulven fangeleir
LocationOsøyro, Norway
Operated bySicherheitspolizei
CommandantOtmar Holenia
Original usePolizeihäftlingslager
OperationalJune 1940-1944

Ulven concentration camp (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). It was located just outside the village of Osøyro, 30 kilometres (19 mi) south of the city of Bergen. It was established in June 1940 during the German occupation of Norway, and it was the first prison camp in Norway. It was designated a Polizeihäftlingslager (police detention camp), under the administration of the Nazi "security police" (Sicherheitspolizei, SIPO).[1]

Initially, prisoners were Jews and communists, but a broader array of members from prosecuted groups began arriving at the camp. Conditions were relatively benign until 1942, when Untersturmführer Otmar Holenia, nicknamed "the Storm", took command and imposed harsher conditions. Ulven was used for purposes of executing individuals for various reasons. It is not known how many were murdered in the camp.

In the course of the summer of 1943, the prisoners at Ulven were used as slave labor to build the Espeland concentration camp in Bergen, to which the prisoners were transferred.

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References

  1. ^ Kristian Ottosen, ed. (1995). Nordmenn i fangenskap 1940-1945 : alfabetisk register (in Norwegian). Oslo: Universitetsforlet. p. 34. ISBN 8200223728.