Bolzano Transit Camp | |
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Transit Camp | |
Other names | German: Polizei- und Durchgangslager Bozen |
Location | Bolzano, Operationszone Alpenvorland |
Operated by | SS |
Commandant | Wilhelm HarsterKarl Friedrich Titho |
Operational | summer 1944–3 May 1945 |
Inmates | Mostly political prisoners, also Italian Jews and Romani people |
Number of inmates | 11,000 |
Bolzano was a transit camp operated by Nazi Germany in Bolzano from 1944 to 3 May 1945 during World War II. It was one of the largest Nazi Lager on Italian soil, along with those of Fossoli, Borgo San Dalmazzo and Trieste.