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The sound clip is a promo for Buchenwald.

Birgers billy can has been on exhibition in Germany. It is filled with names of concentration camps. In the link it can be seen in the second picture from the left:

http://www.stiftung-bg.de/gums/en/ausstellungen/dauer/baracke/baracke39_neu.htm

I have contributed to a page in Wikipedia about the deportation of the Danish policemen to Germany in 1944:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deportation_of_the_Danish_police

 

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The former danish policeman, the 91-year old Birger Schroller tells about his time in german kz camps and camps for prisoners of war.
That happened after he was one of the 1960 policemen, who got arrested and deported in September 1944.

In the first episode Birger tells about what happened during his stay in germany, and about the places he was staying.

Birger and the other just under two thousand policemen got arrested 19. September 1944. 

1960 policemen got deported to the concentration camp Neuengamme.

The policemen were deported to Buchenwald 29 September.

16. December 1944 1604 of the Danish policemen were transferred from Buchenwald to Prisoner of war camp Muhlberg.

24. February 1945 Birger got transferred to Froslev, the danish camp.  

Picture: Axel Munk-Andersen portrait of Birger Schroller 23. february 1945 in Prisoner of War camp in Park Meusdorf by Leipzig.

 

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Direct download: Episode_1_The_stay_in_Germany.mp3
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The 2. episode is about the occupation of Denmark during the second world war and the background for the deportation of the danish policemen.

Picture: Birger & Aimee Schroller autumn 2006.

Direct download: Episode_2_The_occupation_of_Denmark_in_2WW.mp3
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The  3. episode is about Birgers faith, both before the war, and during his stay in the camps and afterwards.

Picture: Anette

Direct download: Episode_3_Faith.mp3
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The 4. episode is about the treatment the danish policemen got in the german camps.
Direct download: Episode_4_Treatment_in_camps.mp3
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The 5. episode is about the red cross packs and other conditions, which had effect on the chances of survival and the risk of death.
Direct download: Episode_5_Red_Cross_Packs.mp3
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The 6. episode is about mortality rates for the danish policemen in Buchenwald, and the overall mortality rate for Buchenwald.
Direct download: Episode_6_Statistic_about_death_in_Buchenwald.mp3
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The 7. episode is about what the time in the german camps has mattered to Birgers life after the war, and the relations he has had to people from the concentration camps.

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Direct download: Episode_7_Afterwards.mp3
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