It was largely built by slave labor from the other concentration camp near Bergen, Ulven concentration camp.
In the course of the summer of 1943, all prisoners at Ulven were transferred to Espeland concentration camp nearby.
A number of Norwegians were immediately arrested, two months later the occupying force established the first prisoners' camp at Ulven outside Bergen.
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