Biography
Knut Flovik Thoresen was born in 1971 in Narvik, Norway. He is a historian and author with a master's degree in history from the University of Agder and is currently pursuing a PhD degree. He has authored 18 books, primarily focusing on topics related to World War II. Thoresen has worked as a historian for various institutions, including the Simon Wiesenthal Centre and the Peace and Human Rights Archive in Norway. Since 2012, he has been researching the fate of Serbian prisoners in Norway, a subject on which he is currently writing his third book. Thoresen is a member of the Serbian Orthodox Church and serves as the president of the "Bloody Road" Foundation, which is dedicated to documenting and preserving the memory of Serbs and others from the Balkans who were sent to Norway as forced labourers during World War II.
NORWAY AS AN OUTPOST OF THE USTADHA GENOCIDE
Abstract: The history of the 4,049 camp inmates who were sent from German-occupied Serbia and the Independent State of Croatia (NDH) to Norway during World War II represents one of the darkest chapters in Norwegian wartime history. No other group of prisoners sent to Norway by the Nazis was treated as harshly or suffered such a high mortality rate as the Serbian prisoners. In the five worst SS-run camps in northern Norway, the death rate ranged between 70% and 80% from the summer of 1942 to the spring of 1943. A total of 1,700 Serbs from the Independent State of Croatia, primarily civilians, were brought to Norway via the Jasenovac concentration camp complex. The Ustashe sold them as slave labour to the Germans while murdering women, children, and the elderly. Men and boys deemed fit to work were sent to Norway to toil until death. In this sense, Norway served as an outpost of the Ustashe genocide.
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