On 22 June 1941, just hours after the commencement of
Operation Barbarossa, Danish
police arrested Martin Nielsen and around 300 other members of the
Communist Party of Denmark (DKP). On the 20 August, he and 106 of the arrested men in Copenhagen were deported from Vestre Prison to the
Horserød camp. In December 1942, the Danish authorities handed him and his file over to the
Gestapo for
interrogation. On 29 August 1943, following the
German dissolution of the Danish government,
German occupation forces took command of the
internment camp where the Danish authorities held Martin Nielsen. On 2 October 1943, he was
deported as part of a group of 150 communists to
Stutthof concentration camp, on the ship
Wartheland via
Swinemünde and by
cattle car. On 25 January 1945, Nielsen
was marched from Stutthof. On 10 March 1945, he was
liberated by the
Red Army, which sent him (part of the way on foot) to
Moscow, from where he was
repatriated. == Bibliography ==