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World War Two Prison Camp Diary [148885]

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World War Two Prison Camp Diary  [148885]
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Slavko Vukic was arrested by the Germans in Yugoslavia and taken to Northern Norway's Beisfjord prison camp to perform work for the Nazis. Of the 900 prisoners at the camp very few made it back to their homeland. This 68 page type written, single spaced diary was translated into Norwegian and then into English by Odd Skogstad. As the translator says, "It is not a pretty story but true." On July 18, 1942 was the Beisfjord Massacre. The "weak and exhausted" prisoners (in Beisfjord) were ordered to dig graves and then ordered into standing positions where they would drop into the grave after the guards had shot them. These 288 prisoners were killed in groups of twenty. Those prisoners who could not stand on their own feet, were left in the two barracks and these were then doused in gasoline and set on fire. Tithe infirmary building was set ablaze; those who jumped out of the windows were shot. Those who tried to escape the conflagration, were shot by a machine gun in the watch tower. State: City: Date: Provenance: Stuart Mackenzie Montana Ephemera Collection