Operation Checkmate was the codename for a raid on shipping at Haugesund, Norway in April 1943 during the Second World War by British Commandos. The raiding party consisted of seven men of No. 14 Comm
Cockles (photograph taken during Operation Frankton)
Sachsenhausen Concentration Camp memorial plaque for British and Commonwealth forces
Grini detention camp
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Grini prison camp was a Nazi concentration camp in Bærum, Norway, which operated between 1941 and May 1945. Ila Detention and Security Prison is now located here.
Operation Checkmate (commando raid)
…an extensive search by the German Army, police and Norwegian civilians. The day after, the four men on Urter were also captured. They were held at the Grini concentration camp and interrogated, before they were handed over to the Sicherheitsdienst (SD) and transported to Sachsenhausen concentration camp in Germany. All involved…
Grini, sometime between 1941 and 1943
Recent parade alignment of prisoners during World War II