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Norway: Register

01 March 1998

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Between 1948-1968 around 11,000 Norwegian families were filed in a special register based on their race. The register set up by the Department for Social Security was used by the security police (POT). Characteritics concerning race, weakness in mind, nervous disorder, epilepsy, mental defectives and alcoholics, says the Norwegian newspaper Dagbladet were recorded. According to the newspaper the files were illegal and never revealed to the parliament. Families filed were faced the possibility of internment or castration.

Dagbladet, 29.4.98.

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