Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Tønder concentration camp

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The result was delete. King of ♥ ♦ ♣ ♠ 11:42, 18 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Tønder concentration camp

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Believed to be a hoax or mistaken information, but not blatant enough for speedy deletion. Peridon (talk) 11:33, 10 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Denmark-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 15:56, 10 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Delete - Probably less a hoax than just a misunderstanding. From what I read in Danish sources, the only notable WWII prison camps in Denmark were Horserød camp and Frøslev Prison Camp [1] -- and these were not "concentration camps" (in our current understanding of the term) but rather prisons for saboteurs.[2] As far as Tønder is concerned, after WWII, from 1945 to 1947, it was the site of one of a number of refugee camps to detain the large influx of people fleeing from Germany into Denmark [3]. I haven't found any Notable or Reliable Sources with which to build an article about a temporary refugee camp -- so until those can be shown, this article should be deleted. — CactusWriter ^(talk) 17:17, 10 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Delete as failing WP:V unless some reliable source can be found. The Danish article da:Koncentrationslejr mentions only Horserød and Frøslev. A search for "Tønder koncentrationslejr" produced nothing relevant - one possible turned out to be about a resister from Tønder who was sent to a camp in Germany. Even if there was a camp of some kind at Tønder, what is described sounds like a transit camp rather than a concentration camp as that term is normally understood. JohnCD (talk) 21:43, 11 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Delete. Wayback Machine link for cited source shows no mention of a concentration camp on the page. Barring the existence another source, fails WP:V. Richard Ye^talk 08:08, 18 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Delete - There has never been a place called "Tønder concentration camp" or similar. In the last months of WWII a relatively large number of east German refugees escaping the advancing Red Army fled to Denmark and many settled in Tønder (a town close to the German border with a relatively high percentage of resident Germans). When the war ended the refugees were transferred to a newly established refugee camp "Eksercergården" near Tønder. Had there been a concentration camp or a prison camp in Tønder, such camp would naturally had been used instead of establishing a new camp. I assume that the "Tønder concentration camp" is in fact "Eksercergården" however; this was not a concentration camp but a refugee camp for East German refugees. Pugilist (talk) 10:57, 18 April 2013 (UTC) - Just for the record, User:Rubr's contribution to the Danish article on da:Tønder claiming existence of a concentration camp in Tønder was soon removed. Pugilist (talk) 11:07, 18 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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