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101: 36: 241: 264:) 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 166:. 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 125: 288: 178:. 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). 237:. Later on, the Danish state took over from the resistance movement, using the camp as the country's largest correctional facility for convicted collaborators. 357: 342: 332: 234: 65: 347: 352: 248:
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
167: 280: 48: 265: 229:). The internment camp was now run by the Danish resistance movement, and among those interned was 52: 44: 69: 205:. Some of the returning prisoners came to Frøslev Prison Camp. Among those were some of the 100: 8: 145: 175: 162:, Danish authorities suggested, in January 1944, that an internment camp be created in 159: 218: 186: 129: 116: 182: 321: 303: 290: 230: 152: 141: 240: 197:. As a result of these efforts, many Scandinavian prisoners came with the 198: 105: 137: 171: 202: 194: 163: 148: 190: 189:
tried to get all Scandinavian concentration camp prisoners to
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