Radarstation og flygtningelejr, Skødevej ved Bække

Out here on the flat, windswept former heathland landscape lies a piece of German military history in Denmark. Because here the Germans established a radar station during World War II.

 

The station was equipped with two large radars, each with a diameter of 17 meters, and placed on large, solid concrete foundations - one of which can be seen in the landscape a few hundred meters from the rest area. The radar station was part of a larger network of approx. 200 stations spread throughout Europe, of which 22 were in Denmark. The radars were hand-operated and when a foreign plane was located, a message was sent from the Fitting Camp to a command on Funen and in Karup. 

The radar station in Fitting is located about 10 km south of the German airfield in Vandel, and was built in 1941. Around the radar station, a camp or small town had been built, where at one time 400 people lived behind fences. Subsequently, traces of ditches and smaller buildings have also been found. After the end of World War II, the camp was used first as a refugee camp and later as an internment camp, for Germans who were going back to Germany after the end of the war. Activities at the site stopped in 1947.

Opposite the farm Skødevej 20 in an opening in the fence east of the gravel road is an information board with further explanation and nice pictures from the camp in operation. 

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