What the records say
- When
- 18 Jul 1942
- Kind
- Massacre
- Coordinates
- 68.38° N, 17.60° E
- Description
- prison camp massacre in Norway, 1942
Beisfjord massacre
1942 mass murder in Beisfjord, Norway
The Beisfjord massacre was a massacre on 18 July 1942 at Beisfjord Camp No. 1 in the village of Beisfjord in Narvik Municipality, Norway of 288 political prisoners. The massacre had been ordered a few days earlier by Josef Terboven, the Reichskommissar for Nazi-occupied Norway.
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