Trandum leir is a former army camp
Ullensaker
Ullensaker is a Municipalities of Norway, municipality in Akershus in Viken (county), Viken Counties of Norway, county, Norway. It is part of the Districts of Norway, traditional region of Romerike. The administrative centre of the municipality i ...
,
Norway
Norway, officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic country in Northern Europe, the mainland territory of which comprises the western and northernmost portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula. The remote Arctic island of Jan Mayen and t ...
. The camp was shut down when the civilian airport at
Gardermoen
Oslo Airport ( no, Oslo lufthavn; ), alternatively referred to as Oslo Gardermoen Airport or simply Gardermoen, is the international airport serving Oslo, Norway, the capital and most populous city in the country. A hub for Flyr, Norse Atlan ...
was built since most of the buildings were located directly underneath the flightpath for planes landing there.
The
woods near Trandum were an infamous site of execution of political prisoners during the
Occupation of Norway by Nazi Germany
The occupation of Norway by Nazi Germany during the Second World War began on 9 April 1940 after Operation Weserübung. Conventional armed resistance to the German invasion ended on 10 June 1940, and Nazi Germany controlled Norway until the ...
. In 1945 a total of 194 bodies were found in mass graves in the woods of Trandum, including 173 Norwegians, six British and fifteen Soviet citizens.
Those who could be identified were exhumed and placed in individual graves (see
Bjarne Dalland
Bjarne Dalland (27 August 1906 – 1 March 1943) was a Norwegian trade unionist, politician and communist resistance member.
Dalland was born in Bergen as the son of Christoffer Dalland from Manger, Norway, Manger and Ingeborg Tvedt from Meland. H ...
).
References
Norwegian Army bases
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