Bolzano Transit Camp

Bolzano Transit Camp
Transit Camp
Bolzano in 1945
Location of Bolzano Transit Camp within Northern Italy
Other namesGerman: Polizei- und Durchgangslager Bozen
LocationBolzano, Operationszone Alpenvorland
Operated bySS
CommandantWilhelm Harster
Karl Friedrich Titho
Operationalsummer 1944–3 May 1945
InmatesMostly political prisoners, also Italian Jews and Romani people
Number of inmates11,000

Bolzano was a transit camp operated by Nazi Germany in Bolzano from 1944 to 3 May 1945 during World War II. It was one of the largest Nazi Lager on Italian soil, along with those of Fossoli, Borgo San Dalmazzo and Trieste.

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