Frøslev Prison Camp, a national Memorial Site

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Tourguide
14. May 2025
The Frøslev Prison Camp was established in 1944 as a German police prison camp under the direction of the German Security Police in Denmark. Over the years, the camp's barracks have seen quite different uses, and only the main watchtower and prisoner barrack H4 remain in their original condition today. These two buildings contain the exhibition of the Frøslev Camp Museum, founded in 1969. The exhibition displays the history of the camp from 1944-45 in detail.
The campgrounds also offer a diverse museum landscape: there are exhibitions by Amnesty International, the UN (FN Museet), the Danish Home Guard (Hjemmeværnsmuseet), the Danish Civil Defence (Beredskabsforbundets Informationsbarak) and a nature exhibition by the Danish Environmental Protection Agency (Skov & Naturstyrelsen).
After the liberation on 5 May 1945, the camp was taken over, first by the Danish resistance movement and later by the Danish prison system. It was renamed "Faarhus Camp" and taken in use as an internment and punishment camp for so-called traitors to the country, i.e. people who had collaborated with the occupying powers.
From 1949 to 1968, the site, now renamed "Padborg Camp", served as barracks. Until 1975, the Danish Civil Defence Office used the camp as a material depot, before restoration of the barracks began in 1984.
In 2001, Frøslev Prison Camp gained status as a national memorial for the time during German Occupation.