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90: 25: 225: 248:) was inaugurated in 1969. According to a 2001 agreement, the camp will be preserved as a national memorial park. Some parts of the original 1944–45 prison camp, which had been demolished, have now been reconstructed, including a watchtower and a portion of the barbed-wire fence. The area also houses a residential 150:. The German occupation authorities consented, and the camp was erected near the village of Frøslev in the south-west of Denmark, close to the German border. From mid-August until the end of the German occupation in May 1945, 12,000 prisoners passed through the camp's gates. Most of them were suspected members of the 272: 162:. Living conditions in the camp were generally tolerable, but 1,600 internees were deported to German concentration camps, where 220 of them died (approximate numbers). 221:. Later on, the Danish state took over from the resistance movement, using the camp as the country's largest correctional facility for convicted collaborators. 341: 326: 316: 218: 54: 331: 336: 232:
By 1949 most collaborators had served their sentences, and the camp was converted to army barracks under the name of
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When the German occupation ended, the prisoners were released, only to be immediately replaced with suspected Nazi
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from the German camps. In March and April 1945, 10,000 Danish and Norwegian captives were brought home from
151: 264: 37: 249: 213:). The internment camp was now run by the Danish resistance movement, and among those interned was 41: 33: 58: 189:. Some of the returning prisoners came to Frøslev Prison Camp. Among those were some of the 89: 8: 129: 159: 146:, Danish authorities suggested, in January 1944, that an internment camp be created in 143: 202: 170: 113: 105: 166: 305: 287: 274: 214: 136: 125: 224: 181:. As a result of these efforts, many Scandinavian prisoners came with the 182: 94: 121: 155: 186: 178: 147: 132: 174: 173:
tried to get all Scandinavian concentration camp prisoners to
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