Horseröd

About seven kilometers east of Helsingör lies Horseröd and there in 1917 a hospital camp for Russian prisoners of war who had been in captivity in Germany was set up. (in 1917 Russia signed a separate peace with Germany and the prisoners of war were sent home). During the Second World War, the camp served between 1940 and 1943 as a internment and transit camp for political prisoners. These were mostly Germans who had fled to Denmark before the war for political reasons and as a part in the peace treatment between Germany and Denmark they would be imprisoned and sent back to Germany. In 1941, Danish communists also began to be arrested and sent to Horseröd before being sent on to Germany. When Germany introduced a state of emergency in August 1943, the camp was taken over by the Germans. In the autumn of 1943, the camp also housed Jews who tried to flee to Sweden. In 1944, the camp was liquidated and the prisoners were sent to the Fröslev camp in southern Denmark. In april 1945 and until the end of the war, the camp served as a hospital for wounded German soldiers. After the war, it became a detention camp for Danish traitors.