Grini detention camp

Grini detention camp
Concentration camp
Grini, sometime between 1941 and 1943
Grini detention camp is located in Akershus
Grini detention camp
Location of Grini detention camp within Akershus
Grini detention camp is located in Norway
Grini detention camp
Grini detention camp (Norway)
Coordinates59°57′12″N 10°34′57″E / 59.9534°N 10.5825°E / 59.9534; 10.5825
Other namesGerman: Polizeihäftlingslager Grini, Norwegian: Grini fangeleir
LocationBærum, Akershus, Norway
Built byNorway
Operated byNazi Germany
Original useConstructed as a women's prison
First built1938–1940
Operational14 June 1941 – 7 May 1945
Liberated byHarry Söderman
Notable inmatesList of Grini prisoners

Grini prison camp (Norwegian: Grini fangeleir, German: Polizeihäftlingslager Grini) was a Nazi concentration camp in Bærum, Norway, which operated between 1941 and May 1945. Ila Detention and Security Prison is now located here.

History

Grini was originally built as a women's prison, near an old croft named Ilen (also written Ihlen), on land bought from the Løvenskiold family by the Norwegian state. The construction of a women's prison started in 1938, but despite being more or less finished in 1940, it did not come into use for its original purpose:[1] Nazi Germany's invasion of Norway on 9 April 1940, during World War II, instead precipitated the use of the site for detention by the Nazi regime. At first, the Nazis used the prison to detain Norwegian officers captured during the Norwegian Campaign to resist the invasion by Nazi Germany. This use was discontinued in June 1940, when Norway capitulated.[2] The prison was then used to house Wehrmacht soldiers[3] until a concentration camp was established on 14 June 1941.[2] The first detainees were sent from Ånebyleiren,[3] the use of which was at the same time discontinued.[4] Shortly afterwards, the ranks of prisoners were increased by Soviet troops captured during Operation Barbarossa.[5] The camp was run by Schutzstaffel (SS) and Gestapo personnel,[6] who renamed the camp Polizeihäftlingslager Grini. The name corresponds to a nearby farm and surrounding residential district located a short distance southeast of the camp, but historically the area at Ilen had no connection to Grini farm.[3]

At first inmates were detained on the premises of the original prison, but in 1942 an extra barracks had to be built to enlarge capacity. In August 1942, the Veidal Prison Camp was created as a sub-unit of the camp.[7] Grini was used primarily for Norwegian political prisoners, but the detention of more regular criminals followed. Many were held at Grini before being shipped to camps in Germany;[2] 3,402 people in total passed through the camp en route to camps in Germany itself.[8] Similarly, many teachers who took part in the civil disobedience of 1942 were held at Grini for one day before being taken to Kirkenes via Jørstadmoen.[9] A small number of foreign citizens were also held there. Altogether, 19,247 prisoners passed through Grini,[8] and at most (in February 1945) there were 6,208.[3]

Among these were the survivors of Operation Checkmate, a 1943 British commando raid, including their leader, John Godwin, RN. They were subsequently sent to Sachsenhausen concentration camp where they were executed in February 1945.

The total number killed at Grini is unknown, though the Gestapo and police often used the area for purposes of torture and at least eight people were executed there. British airborne troops sent by glider to sabotage the Norsk Hydro heavy-water plant during Operation Freshman crashed in Norway due to foul weather. The five uninjured survivors were taken prisoner and held at Grini concentration camp until 18 January 1943, when they were taken to nearby woods, blindfolded and shot in the back of the head by the Gestapo. This was a war crime, in breach of the Geneva Convention. Executions normally took place at Akershus Fortress or Trandumskogen.

Camps in other parts of Norway, including Fannrem, Kvænangen and Bardufoss, were organized as part of the Grini system.[8] German forces also maintained a military camp at Huseby, not far from Grini.[10]

Prison life

See also: list of Grini prisoners

Other than guards, the German occupiers devoted few personnel to the camp. Since many politicians, academics and cultural personalities were detained at Grini, a certain level of internal organization was established. Prisoners worked in manufacturing, agriculture and other manual labor.[2] Much of this manual labor took place outside the camp.[3] Some detainees maintained their pre-war specialties, such as literary historian Francis Bull who secretly held several lectures, and managed to publish three books with material written during his three-year stay at Grini.[11]

The diet at Grini was poor. After the war, it caused a certain stir in the populace when it was perceived that Nazi prisoners of the liberated Norway were treated better than prisoners of the Nazi regime; among other things the diet in Norwegian prisons was much better.[9] On the other hand, Grini was more hospitable to resistance prisoners than the similar camps in Germany.[1]

Liberation

Recent parade alignment of prisoners during World War II

On 7 May 1945 Harry Söderman, who was in charge of the education of the Norwegian police troops in Sweden, arrived in the camp and ordered commander Zeidler to arrange an assembly, first for the 5,000 male prisoners, and then for the 500 females. The women were released immediately, while the male detainees were asked to stay in the camp for a few days until transport could be arranged, and leadership of the camp was handed over to the prisoners' representatives. Prisoners from Møllergata 19 and Victoria Terrasse were transferred to Grini the same day.[12][13][14][15][16]

After the war

After the liberation of Norway in May 1945, the prison was used for Norwegians tried or convicted of treason or collaboration, as a part of the legal purge in Norway after World War II. Since the name "Grini" was now associated with the Norwegian resistance movement, hence seen as heroic,[9] the camp was renamed Ilebu. The new name also reflected the actual location of the camp better. 3,440 people were imprisoned here in July 1945.[1] The conditions in the camp were unhealthy, with beri-beri breaking out in the summer.[17] A guard reported that punitive exercise was used in a harsh way.[18] On 13 October 1945 the National Mobile Police Service conducted a razzia (police raid). During the razzia, prosecutor Lauritz Jenssen Dorenfeldt and the wife of camp commandant Helge Gleditsch were wrongly rounded up in the yard.[19]

It was closed in 1951 but reopened in the same year under the name Ila as a "landsfengsel og sikringsanstalt" (national prison and security institution), a prison for criminals serving long-term sentences.[1]

Much of the camp, including the barracks, has been torn down. One preserved barracks building today stands at Kadettangen.[3] There is also a museum, the Grini Museum, near today's Ila prison.[6] The preserved barracks was moved back in 2010.

Printed documentation

Architect Odd Nansen managed to preserve most of his diaries from Grini and Sachsenhausen, and selections from these were issued in 1946 as the three-volume book Fra dag til dag (From Day to Day).[20] Volume one covers the period from January 1942 to August 1942,[21] volume two covers August 1942 to August 1943,[22] and volume three covers Nansen's stay in Sachsenhausen.[23] In 1946 and 1947 the two-volume book Griniboken (The Grini Book) was issued, edited by August Lange and Johan Schreiner, with contributions from several of the detainees.[24] The first volume describes daily life at Grini as it developed over the years, including separate articles on the women's department, on the "Haft" departments (for men and women), and on "Fallskjermen", the department for those who were sentenced to death and awaiting execution.[25] The second volume covers the internal organisation, such as the labor, farm work, and healthcare regimes, in more detail, and also discusses cultural and religious life. The external locations (Kvænangen, Kongsvinger, Bardufoss, and others) are described. There are also chapters on the undercover resistance at Grini, such as the news service, espionage, and the secret finger-signing language which was developed.[26] Børre R. Giertsen's 1946 book Norsk fangeleksikon. Grinifangene (Norwegian Prisoner Encyclopedia: the Grini Prisoners) contains an overview of the German staff at Grini,[27] as well as a chronologically ordered list of the prisoners, starting with the Solvær hostages incarcerated at Åneby 15 March 1941.[28]

See also

References

From Day to Day by Odd Nansen was reprinted in 2016, in English translation; this edition covers the three books published in 1949.

Footnotes

  1. ^ a b c d Borgen, Per Otto (2006). "Grini fangeleir". Asker og Bærum leksikon (in Norwegian). Drammen: Forlaget for by- og bygdehistorie. pp. 180–181. ISBN 82-91649-10-3.
  2. ^ a b c d Henriksen, Petter, ed. (2007). "Grini – tysk fangeleir". Store norske leksikon (in Norwegian). Oslo: Kunnskapsforlaget. Retrieved 29 May 2009.
  3. ^ a b c d e f Espeland 2002: p. 110
  4. ^ Nøkleby, Berit (1995). "fengsler-fangeleirer". In Dahl, Hans Fredrik (ed.). Norsk krigsleksikon 1940-45. Oslo: Cappelen. Archived from the original on 4 January 2010. Retrieved 30 May 2009.
  5. ^ Giertsen 1946: pp. 9-11
  6. ^ a b Bakken, Tor Chr., ed. (2008). "Grini". Budstikkas store Asker og Bærum-leksikon (in Norwegian). Oslo: Kunnskapsforlaget. p. 211. ISBN 978-82-573-1534-4.
  7. ^ Happe, Katja, & Maja Peers. 2015. West- und Nordeuropa Juni 1942–1945. Berlin: De Gruyter Oldenbourg, p. 188.
  8. ^ a b c "Eitinger-rapporten – del 1". NOU 1998: 12. Alta bataljon (in Norwegian). Oslo: Government of Norway. 2001. Archived from the original on 9 October 2012. Retrieved 17 May 2009.
  9. ^ a b c Christensen 1995
  10. ^ Espeland, 2002: p. 110
  11. ^ Helle, Knut (ed.). "Francis Bull". Norsk biografisk leksikon (in Norwegian). Oslo: Kunnskapsforlaget. Retrieved 30 May 2009.
  12. ^ Hydle 1946: pp. 308–312
  13. ^ Madsen 1946: pp. 389–392
  14. ^ Voksø 1984: p. 525
  15. ^ Eriksen; Halvorsen 1987: pp. 161–164
  16. ^ Söderman 1946: pp. 194–215
  17. ^ Fjørtoft 1987: p. 63
  18. ^ Fjørtoft, 1997: pp. 76–77
  19. ^ Fjørtoft, 1997: pp. 130–132
  20. ^ Baalsrud, Gaute. "Odd Nansen". In Helle, Knut (ed.). Norsk biografisk leksikon (in Norwegian). Oslo: Kunnskapsforlaget. Retrieved 2 June 2009.
  21. ^ Nansen 1946, volume 1
  22. ^ Nansen 1946, volume 2
  23. ^ Nansen 1946, volume 3
  24. ^ Skodvin, Magne. "August Lange". In Helle, Knut (ed.). Norsk biografisk leksikon (in Norwegian). Oslo: Kunnskapsforlaget. Retrieved 2 June 2009.
  25. ^ Lange; Schreiner 1946: pp. 1–446
  26. ^ Lange; Schreiner 1947: pp. 1–605
  27. ^ Giertsen 1946: pp. xx–xxx
  28. ^ Giertsen 1946: pp. 1–786

Bibliography

  • Christensen, Trygve (1995). Bærum og krigen 1940–1945 (in Norwegian). Bekkestua: Bærum Public Library. ISBN 82-991713-5-0.
  • Eriksen, Knut Einar; Halvorsen, Terje (1987). Frigjøring. Norge i krig (in Norwegian). Vol. 8. Oslo: Aschehoug.
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