Trandumskogen

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Grave at 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. [1]

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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. [2] The medical identification of the corps was led by professor in forensic medicine Georg Waaler, assisted by dentist Ferdinand Strøm. [3]

From May 5, 2020, Trandumskogen is protected as a national cultural heritage site. [4]

Memorial

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. [5]

The text on the memorial reads: [6]

IN THE COMBAT FOR FREEDOM
DURING THE 1940-1945 WAR
173 NORWEGIANS 15 SOVJET-
SUBJECTS AND 6 BRITONS WERE
HERE IN THE WOODS OF TRAN-
DUM EXECUTED BY THE ENEMY

The names of those executed at 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

Grave 8, 25/26 May 1944

25 May 1944

  • Hans Skjærvø from Osen
  • Georg Stokke from Oslo

26 May 1944

  • Thore Eugen Sentzen from Svanvik in Sør-Varanger
  • Magnus Dahlen from Fåberg
  • Lars Emil Erichsen from Oslo
  • John Hatland from Oslo
  • Frederik Wilhelm Holter from Oslo
  • Odvar Jacobsen from Oslo
  • Leif Richard Johansen from Oslo
  • Harald Reitan from Oslo
  • Per Arne Stranger Thorsen from Oslo
  • Sven Olav Vogt from Oslo

Grave 9, Unknown date

Grave 10, 2/3 March 1943

2. March 1943

  • Johan Peter Bruun from Oslo
  • Haakon Marius Sunde from Kopervik

3 March 1943

  • Ragnar Alf Anderson from Nesodden
  • Osmund Lindgård Brønnum from Oslo
  • Arne Gunnestad from Asker
  • Kaare Bjørn Jensen from Oslo
  • Thorleif Krogh from Oslo
  • Jacob Dybcad Sømme from Oslo
  • Lorentz Helge Aarnes from Oslo

Grave 11, 13/14 October

13 October 1943

  • Anders Johansen Krok from Mjøndalen
  • Erling Christian Marthinson from Eidsvåg i Åsane

14 October 1943

  • Thomas Henry Thornau Agnæs from Drammen
  • Sverre Andersen from Oslo
  • Reidar Furu from Drammen
  • Aksel Eugen Grønholdt from Oslo
  • Kaare Gundersen from Oslo
  • Sverre Emil Halvorsen from Oslo
  • Sigurd Jacobsen from Oslo
  • Alv Johan Johnsen from Drammen
  • Arthur Simensen from Nedre Eiker
  • Emil Gustav Hvaal from Sem
  • Lars Elias Telle from Sund
  • Olaf Østerud from Oslo
  • Christian Fredrik Fasting Aall from Fana

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

Grave 17, 9/10 May 1944

9. May 1944

  • Arnt Andersen from Stavanger
  • Arne Thurin Bjørge from Arendal
  • Leif Dahl from Slagen
  • Olav Dyvik from Grimstad
  • Arthur Valdemar Emanuelsen from Stavanger
  • Johan Alfred Gøranson from Oppegård
  • Knut Haugneland from Stavanger
  • Martin August Johannesen from Egersund
  • Henry Victor Larsen from Stavanger
  • Arne Laudal from Kristiansand
  • Georg Osnes from Stavanger
  • Rolf Olav Schulstad from Oslo

10 May 1944

  • Knut Bø from Bygland
  • Magnus Nielsen from Hetland
  • Ingvald Georg Nordbø from Stavanger
  • Lars Sandvik from Kvinneherad
  • Torleif Tellefsen from Grimstad
  • Ferdinand Tjemsland from Stavanger
  • Aanund Tveit from Vestre Moland

Grave 18, Flatnermoen, 29 December 1941

In May 2021, Forsvarsbygg cut down the trees in the forest causing widespread condemnation. [7] This action resulted in a criminal complaint which is as of June 2021, still under investigation.

2021 investigation of agency's tree-cutting at the heritage site

In 2021, Forsvarsbygg cut down trees in the forest. [8] On 2 June the county of Viken ordered that the cutting must stop; the mayor of Ullensaker filed a police report. [9] The Cabinet ordered a fact-finding commission regarding what had happened and how to prevent similar events at similar sites, according to the minister of defence. [10]

As of June 2021, the tree-cutting at the heritage site is still under investigation. [11]

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References

  1. ↑ "FKL - Trandumskogen". Elg-johansen.com. 2005-05-19. Retrieved 2015-06-01.
  2. ↑ "Ullensaker kommune - Trandumskogen". www.ullensaker.kommune.no. Archived from the original on 28 September 2007. Retrieved 17 January 2022.
  3. ↑ Jacobsen, Alf R. (2015). 1945. Hat. Hevn. Håp (in Norwegian). Oslo: Vega forlag. pp. 199–201. ISBN   978-82-8211-419-6.
  4. ↑ "Krigsminnet Trandumskogen fredet" (in Norwegian). Norwegian Directorate for Cultural Heritage. 2020-05-08. Retrieved 2021-06-29. Trandumskogen i Ullensaker kommune blir formelt fredet på frigjøringsdagen 8. mai 2020, ved 75-årsjubileet for frigjøringen av Norge.
  5. ↑ "Per Palle Storm – Norsk biografisk leksikon". Snl.no. Retrieved 2015-06-01.
  6. ↑ Picture of the monument
  7. ↑ "Forsvarsbygg gjennomgår rutiner etter krigsminne-hogst: – Det er gjort uopprettelig skade".
  8. ↑ "Forsvarsbygg gjennomgår rutiner etter krigsminne-hogst: – Det er gjort uopprettelig skade".
  9. ↑ "Forsvarsbygg gjennomgår rutiner etter krigsminne-hogst: – Det er gjort uopprettelig skade".
  10. ↑ "Kommisjon skal granske hogst i kulturminne fra andre verdenskrig – VG Nå: Nyhetsdøgnet".
  11. ↑ "Forsvarsbygg gjennomgår rutiner etter krigsminne-hogst: – Det er gjort uopprettelig skade".
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