It opened in March 1944 to alleviate overflowing in other camps, particularly Grini and the Falstad concentration camp.
It was primarily a transit camp for prisoners on their way to Falstad, Grini or camps in Germany.
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He was then arrested, and spent the rest of the war in the prison camps Falstad and Grini.