Location has been disabled. Location sharing is required to view local results around your location. To use it, you must enable the permission to access the location in the browser settings.
Location has been disabled. Location sharing is required to view local results around your location. To use it, you must share the permission to access the location. To do this, click the lock icon to the left of the address bar and release the appropriate permission.
Location has been disabled. Location sharing is required to view local results around your location. To use it, you need to share the permission to access the location in your device settings under "Privacy and security -> Location services -> Your used web browser (eg. Safari/Chrome/...)".
Location has been disabled. Location sharing is required to view local results around your location. To use it, you must share the permission to access the location. To do this, click the icon to the left of the address bar and then reload the page.
Location has been disabled. Location sharing is required to view local results around your location. To use it, you must share the permission to access the location. To do this, click the icon to the right of the address bar.
Frøslev Prison Camp
Redaktioneller Artikel
Tourguide
03. November 2025
As the deportations of Danes to German penitentiaries and concentration camps increased in the autumn of 1943, the Danish authorities initiated negotiations with the German occupying power to impede this development by establishing an internment camp on Danish soil. The Germans agreed, and the result was the Frøslev Camp near the Danish-German border. On 13 August 1944, the first approximately 750 prisoners from the Horserød Prison Camp on the island of Zealand arrived at Frøslev Camp. As the official German name "Polizeigefangenenlager Fröslee" (Police Prisoner Camp Frøslev) indicates, the inmates were prisoners of the German security police, who also ran the camp. The prisoners in the Frøslev Camp never experienced the cruelty as in the other German concentration camps. The Danish prison system was responsible for food and certain other areas of provision for the prisoners. Violence, torture, humiliation, and killings did not occur on the whole. On 15 September 1944, only one month after the Frøslev Camp was put into operation, the Germans violated the very basis for the establishment of the camp by deporting 195 prisoners to the Neuengamme Concentration Camp in Germany. A total of about 1,600 Frøslev prisoners were deported to Germany, of whom about 220 died. The Frøslev camp was built for about 1,500 inmates. By March 1945, however, the number of prisoners was more than 3,000, and by the end of April, because of the evacuation of Nordic concentration camp prisoners in Germany, the maximum number of 5,500 inmates was reached. In total, about 12,000 people passed through the camp from August 1944 until liberation on 5 May 1945.
