Blood Road Museum

The Blood Road Museum (Norwegian: Blodveimuseet) is a museum in Saltdal in Nordland county, Norway. The museum is located about 2 kilometers (1.2 mi) north of the center of Rognan and stands in the yard of the Saltdal Museum,[1] which is part of the Nordland Museum.

Yugoslav cemetery in Botn
Blood Road Museum
Blodveimuseet
Location in Nordland
Blood Road Museum (Norway)
LocationSaltdal, Norway
Coordinates67°6′5.72″N 15°25′38.71″E
Websitehttp://nordlandsmuseet.no/blodveimuseet/

The museum documents the history of the Yugoslav, Polish, and Soviet prisoners of war that built the Blood Road between Rognan and Langset in the municipality of Saltdal between 1942 and 1945 under the direction of the German occupation authorities.[2] It also tells about how the prisoners of war lived and worked in the Dunderland Valley, Nord-Rana, and Korgen.

There are two cemeteries in Botn, one for the Yugoslavs and another for the Germans. There is also a Soviet memorial where there was formerly a Soviet cemetery.

References
  1. Blood Road Museum at Nordland Museum
  2. Bohn, Robert, Christoph Cornelissen, & Karl Christian Lammers (eds.). 2008. Vergangenheitspolitik und Erinnerungskulturen im Schatten des Zweiten Weltkriegs: Deutschland und Skandinavien seit 1945. Essen: Klartext Verlag, p. 192
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