Official Name: | Trandum leir |
Settlement Type: | Former army camp |
Pushpin Label Position: | top |
Subdivision Type: | Country |
Subdivision Name: | Norway |
Subdivision Name1: | Østlandet |
Subdivision Name2: | Akershus |
Subdivision Type4: | Municipality |
Utc Offset1: | +01:00 |
Utc Offset1 Dst: | +02:00 |
Postal Code Type: | Post Code |
Trandum leir is a former army camp Ullensaker, Norway. The camp was shut down when the civilian airport at Gardermoen was built since most of the buildings were located directly underneath the flightpath for planes landing there.
The woods near Trandum were an infamous site of execution of political prisoners during the Occupation of Norway by Nazi Germany. In 1945 a total of 194 bodies were found in mass graves in the woods of Trandum, including 173 Norwegians, six British and fifteen Soviet citizens.[1] Those who could be identified were exhumed and placed in individual graves (see Bjarne Dalland).