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In the camp´s former infirmary hut H6 an exhibition on the judicial purge in Denmark after World War II can be seen. The larger part of those incarcerated in the Faarhus Camp were members of the German minority population in Southern Jutland. For them the Faarhus Camp became the very symbol of what they considered of what they considered an unjust judicial purge.

The incarceration in the Faarhus Camp results in bitterness against the Danish state. A total of 13.500 Danes were convicted as collaborators. About half of them had volunteered for German military service, primarily in the Waffen-SS. The remainder part had mainly served with other German uniformed and armed corps.

Read and see more about the convicted SS-volunteers, who according to view point were seen as either heroes or victims.

Exhibition about the Faarhus Camp