Dunderland (concentration camp)
Dunderland was a Nazi concentration camp in Norway during World War Two. It was located in Dunderlandsdalen (a valley) in Rana.[1] The prison camp had had 481 prisoners in May 1945;[2] The purpose of the camp was for the prisoners to do forced labor on the Nordland Line.
In 2017, the remains of the concentration camp were ordered to be preserved; the order came from a government agency:Directorate for Cultural Heritage.[1]
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On 14 May 1945, a medical doctor (Dag Fodstad) wrote in a report, "477 Russians, of which 330 are sick, 40 of them have tuberculosis, many with oedema, 100 are strongly fatigued".[3]
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- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Flytter E6 600 meter for å berge krigsfangeleir
- ↑ Utsultede fanger ble drevet til slavearbeid. NSB tiet om alt etter krigen [Starving prisoners were forced to do slave labor. The State Railways kept silent about everything after the war]
- ↑ Jan H. Steen. "Hvem bygde banen i nord?" [Who built the railway of the North?] (19 July 2017) Klassekampen. p. 21
