Grini detention camp

Grini detention camp
Concentration camp
Grini, sometime between 1941 and 1943
Location of Grini detention camp within Akershus
Grini detention camp (Norway)
Coordinates59°57′12″N 10°34′57″E / 59.9534°N 10.5825°E / 59.9534; 10.5825
Other namesGerman: Polizeihäftlingslager Grini, Norwegian: Grini fangeleir
LocationBærum, Akershus, Norway
Built byNorway
Operated byNazi Germany
Original useConstructed as a women's prison
First built1938–1940
Operational14 June 1941 – 7 May 1945
Liberated byHarry Söderman
Notable inmatesList of Grini prisoners

Grini prison camp (Norwegian: Grini fangeleir, German: Polizeihäftlingslager Grini) was a Nazi concentration camp in Bærum, Norway, which operated between 1941 and May 1945. Ila Detention and Security Prison is now located here.

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