Radar station and refugee camp, Skødevej near Bække

The station was equipped with two large radars, each with a diameter of 17 metres, placed on large, solid concrete foundations – one of which is visible in the landscape a few hundred metres from the rest area. The radar station was part of a larger network of approximately 200 stations spread across Europe, 22 of which were in Denmark. The radars were manually operated and when a foreign aircraft was located, a message was sent from Fitzgerald Camp to a command on Funen and in Karup.

The radar station at Fitting is located approximately 10 km south of the German airfield Vandel and was built in 1941. A camp or town was built around the radar station, where at one time 400 people lived behind a fence. Traces of ditches and small buildings have also been found. After the end of the Second World War, the camp was first used as a refugee camp and later as an internment camp for Germans who were to return to Germany after the war. Activities on the site ceased in 1947.

Opposite the farm Skødevej 20 in an opening in the fence east of the gravel road is an information board with further explanations and nice photos of the campsite in operation.

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Source

• Text: RJArmy.nl
• Photos: TracesofWar