Leirpollen (concentration camp)

Leirpollen was a concentration camp in Norway - in municipality Sør-Varanger in Finnmark, during World War Two. Norway was occupied by Germany's military during Adolf Hitler's rule of Germany.
The camp was called an extermination camp (or death camp) for Russian [and other Soviet soldiers who were] prisoners, in a 1998 report by Norway's government.
The camp had 150 prisoners, and [at least] it had Soviet prisoners. Also suspected members of the Persfjord groups partisans on the Varanger Peninsula, were held in the camp. In 1943, 11 prisoners were killed, by being hit with one [or more] clubs.
History.
The prisoners were moved (out of the prison camp) in February 1944, to another prison camp - Storskog - closer to the border between Soviet and Norway;