Norwegian camp guards shocked SS with brutality
Norwegian camp guards shocked SS with brutality Norwegian guards working at Nazi prison camps in northern Norway were so brutal to prisoners that it shocked even the German SS soldiers supervising them, a new book on Norway's Hird organization has revealed. Norwegian guards working at Nazi prison camps in northern Norway were so brutal to prisoners that it shocked even the German SS soldiers supervising them, a new book on Norway's Hird organization has revealed. According to 'Unforgiven Norwegians - Hird 1933-1945', published in Norway this week, the German officers were so unnerved that they issued disciplinary warnings to the Norwegian guards, confiscated their bayonets, and briefly jailed some of them. AMAZON PRIME VIDEO WATCH NOW World War II Total War The German authorities then decided to remove the Norwegian guards from active duty after just 10 months. Around 400 young Norwegians were employed from June 1942 to guard Serbian prisoners taken to camps in ...