My father recently discovered some pictures taken by my grand-uncle at the SS Sennheim training camp. They appearently show everyday life at Sennheim, but the bakcground is a bit more dramatic. I'm not sure this is the right place for this topic though.
My grand-uncle was arrested at Oslo University november 30th 1943 together with several hundred other students. The nazi authorities considered the university to be a resistance movement "hotspot", and wanted to show they could turn anti-nazis into nazis and SS soldiers. He was then in the first group of 291 students sent to Sennheim for ideological training. Here, the SS tried to make "good nazis" of them through the means of both stick (threats of executions) and carrot (promises of continued university studies). None of the students were successfully "converted", and when allied forces closed in on Sennheim the camp was evacuated, and my grand-uncle eventually ended up in KZ Buchenwald. Though being in a KZ, they got special treatment in the positive sense. They got more and better food than the other prisoners and were excempted from physical labour.
If anyone can give me more information on the norwegian students at Sennheim and, particularly, more information on people in the pictures, it would be most appreciated!
And now, some pictures
