Trandumskogen

Trandumskogen is a forest located in Ullensaker, Akershus county, Norway. It was the site of one of the first discoveries in May 1945 of German mass graves in Norway. The German executioner Oskar Hans was the officer in command of the unit performing the executions.

Contents

• Trandumskogen 2016
• M rkets lys ep 4 4 trandumskogen
• Grave 1 1 March 1943
• Grave 2 3 September 1943
• Grave 3 30 October 1944
• Grave 4 30 April 1942
• Grave 6 5 September 1944
• Grave 7 3 June 1944
• 25 May 1944
• 26 May 1944
• Grave 9 Unknown date
• 2 March 1943
• 3 March 1943
• 13 October 1943
• 14 October 1943
• Grave 12 21 May 1943
• Grave 13 4 July 1944
• Grave 14 7 September 1942
• Grave 15 12 August 1942
• Grave 16 28 June 1943
• 9 May 1944
• 10 May 1944
• Grave 18 Flatnermoen 29 December 1941
• References

In total 173 Norwegians, 6 British and 15 Soviet citizens were executed in Trandumskogen. Many had been sentenced to death by the German occupation forces, but there was also a great number who were subject to arbitrary executions. After the Second World War, Norwegian citizens sentenced for treason, and leading members of the Norwegian national socialist party Nasjonal Samling were forced to open the graves and exhume the bodies of the executed prisoners. The medical identification of the corps was led by professor in forensic medicine Georg Waaler, assisted by dentist Ferdinand Strøm.

On 10 October 1954, the memorial in Trandumskogen was unveiled. Crown Prince Olav stood for the ceremony. Per Palle Storm, artist and sculptor and professor at the National Art Academy had carried out the artistic part of the work. The memorial is carved of light Granite (Iddefjordgranitt). To the south side an inscription is carved in Norwegian. The same text translated into Russian is cut into the east side and in English to the west side. The memorial is located south of the burial ground. The memorial lists the names of those who were executed there. The memorial has status as a Norwegian national memorial.

The text on the memorial reads: