Bolzano Transit Camp

Bolzano Transit Camp
Transit Camp
Bolzano in 1945
Location of Bolzano Transit Camp within Northern Italy
Other names	German: Polizei- und Durchgangslager Bozen
Location	Bolzano, Operationszone Alpenvorland
Operated by	SS
Commandant	Wilhelm Harster Karl 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.