Horserød camp
| Danish Prisons | |
| Statsfængslet ved Horserød | |
| Location: | Horserød, Elsinore |
| Status: | Operational |
| Classification: | Prison |
| Capacity: | 221 |
| Opened: | 1916-17 |
| Closed: | |
| Managed by: | Correctional Service of Denmark |
Coordinates: 56°02′44″N 12°29′40″E / 56.045494°N 12.49449°E Horserød camp is an open state prison at Horserød, in local parlance it is still referred as Horserød camp, located in North Zealand, ca. seven kilometers from Helsingør.
Before World war II
The camp was originally consisted of approx. 75 wooden barracks and was built in 1917 to be a place for Russian prisoners of war who came from Germany during the First World War. In the period after the First World War the camp housed various kinds of refugees, and was subsequently converted to summer camp for school children from the slums of Copenhagen [1]
During the war
19. April 1940 the first of 80 German immigrants got detained in the camp. Later they were sent to Germany. On 2 August 1941 the 41 last detainees were sent back to Germany. A court in Hamburg later sentenced 14 of them to capital punishment while the rest were sent to German concentration camps.[2]
In 1941 the Danish communists were arrested and first put into Vestre Prison in Copenhagen and later from the 22 June 1941 at Horserød camp, because of an anti-Communist Act who was adopted by the Danish parliament on 22 August 1941.[2]
First Danish traitors and later since September 1943 the Germans used the camp to detained various Danish resistance and Jews. Although Horserød Camps was not described as a concentration camp, it had the same function, however, was in contrast to the German concentration camps not under SS.[2]
When the Danish government in 1944 created Frøslev camp the inmates from Horserød was moved there. From April 1945 the Germans used the camp as a military hospital for wounded German soldiers.[2]
After the war
From 15 August 1945 the camp was used for the internment of Danish traitors which the last was released in 1956. The Danish prison services took over Horserød camp in 1947.[2][3]
External reference
- A necessary museum in Horserød (Danish)
- Horserød-Stutthof Association's website on the camp's history (Danish)
- Report on the current prison with many pictures (Danish)
- Horserødlejren
References
- ↑ Syge og sårede krigsfanger 1. del, Københavns Befæstning (Danish)
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 Horserødlejrens historie, Horserød-Stutthof foreningen (Danish)
- ↑ Statsfængslet ved Horserød, Kriminalforsorgen (Danish)