Concentration camp

A concentration camp is a large detention center created for political opponents, aliens, specific ethnic or religious groups, civilians of a critical war-zone, or other groups of people, often during a war. The term refers to situations where the internees are persons selected for their conformance to broad criteria without judicial process, rather than having been judged as individuals. Camps for prisoners of war are usually considered separately from this category, although informally (and in some other languages) they may also be called concentration camps. The word "concentration" indicates a regional concentration, but it also implies the crowded, and often unhealthy, state of the facilities.

Sweden

About seven or eight internment camps were used in Sweden during World War II, under a nominally neutral but de-facto pro-Nazi regime.

Related Topics:
Sweden - World War II

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• The most famous is probably Storsien outside Kalix in Norrbotten where about 300-370 communists, syndicalists and pacifists were kept during the winter 1939-1940.
• Naartijärvi south of Luleå,
• Öxnered at Vänersborg,
• Grytan outside Östersund and
• a boat for sailors outside Dalarö.
• Vindeln: constructed in Västerbotten in 1943
• Stensele: constructed in Västerbotten in 1943
• A possible eighth camp.

In May 1941 a total of ten camps for 3000-3500 were planned, but towards the end of 1941 the plans were put on ice and in 1943 the last camp was closed down.

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The navy had at least one special detainment ship for communists and "troublemakers".

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Is this the Dalarö boat? If so, that's only 1, not plural.

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