Where was Leirpollen concentration camp located?
Q: Where was Leirpollen concentration camp located?
A: Leirpollen concentration camp was located in the municipality of Sør-Varanger in Finnmark, Norway.
Q: When did Leirpollen concentration camp operate?
A: Leirpollen concentration camp operated during World War Two when Norway was occupied by Germany's military during Adolf Hitler's rule of Germany.
Q: What type of camp was Leirpollen?
A: Leirpollen was an extermination camp or death camp.
Q: Who were the main prisoners at Leirpollen?
A: Russian or other Soviet soldiers who were prisoners, as well as suspected members of the Persfjord groups partisans on the Varanger Peninsula were held at Leirpollen.
Q: How many prisoners did Leirpollen have?
A: Leirpollen had 150 prisoners.
Q: How many prisoners were killed at Leirpollen and how were they killed?
A: In 1943, 11 prisoners at Leirpollen were killed by being hit with one or more clubs.
Q: Who labeled Leirpollen as an extermination camp in a 1998 report?
A: Norway's government labeled Leirpollen as an extermination camp in a 1998 report.
