Trandumskogen
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Trandumskogen in Ullensaker was May 1945 the site of one of the first discoveries of German mass graves in Norway. The German executioner Oskar Hans was officer in charge for the unit performing the executions here.
In total, 173 Norwegians, 6 British citizens and 15 Russians were executed here. Many were sentenced to death by the German occupation force, but there was also a great number subject to arbitrary executions. After the war, Norwegian citizens sentenced for treason, and leading NS-members were used to dig up the graves and exhume the bodies of the executed prisoners.
A memorial for the persons executed at Trandumskogen has been raised at the location, listing the names of everyone executed here. This memorial has status as a national memorial.[1]
The text on the memorial reads:
- IN THE COMBAT FOR FREEDOM
DURING THE 1940-1945 WAR
173 NORWEGIANS 15 SOVJET-
SUBJECTS AND 6 BRITONS WERE
HERE IN THE WOODS OF TRAN-
DUM EXECUTED BY THE ENEMY
[edit] External links
- Kalde gufs fra fortiden(Norwegian)
