Qualla: Blood Road Museum https://qualla.com/blood-road-museum en-us © 2026 Bendyline Mon, 20 Jul 2026 10:21:35 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/u/7/f/v/blood-road-museum-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Blood Road Museum https://qualla.com/blood-road-museum Blood Road Museum: Introduction https://qualla.com/blood-road-museum/ Photo credit Sandivas, CC BY-SA 4.0. In July 1943, somewhere along a road being carved through the mountains of Nordland county, a prisoner was shot. His brother took the dead man's blood and painted a cross on the rock face. That cross gave the road its name—Blodveien, the Blood Road—and today a small museum about 2 kilometers north of Rognan in Saltdal Municipality tells the story of the people who were forced to build it. The Blood Road Museum stands in the yard of the Saltdal Museum, itself part of the Nordland Museum, and it exists because some histories are too important to let the landscape absorb without remark.

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]]> Fri, 27 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/u/7/f/v/blood-road-museum-wp/u7fv-blood-road-museum-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Blood Road Museum: The Labor That Built the Road https://qualla.com/blood-road-museum/ Photo credit Sandivas, CC BY-SA 4.0. Between 1942 and 1945, German occupation authorities forced Yugoslav, Polish, and Soviet prisoners of war to construct a new section of Norwegian National Road 50 between Rognan and Langset, on the east side of Saltdal Fjord. Before the war, a ferry service connected these points...

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]]> Fri, 27 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/u/7/f/v/blood-road-museum-wp/u7fv-blood-road-museum-the-labor-that-built-the-road.mp3 0:06 2 full Blood Road Museum: What the Museum Holds https://qualla.com/blood-road-museum/ Photo credit Sandivas, CC BY-SA 4.0. The Blood Road Museum documents not just the construction of the road but the lives—and deaths—of the people who built it. It covers the prisoners' experiences across a wider geography than Saltdal alone, extending to the Dunderlandsdalen valley, Nord-Rana, and Korgen, where pris...

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]]> Fri, 27 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/u/7/f/v/blood-road-museum-wp/u7fv-blood-road-museum-what-the-museum-holds.mp3 0:06 3 full Blood Road Museum: A Reckoning Delayed https://qualla.com/blood-road-museum/ Photo credit Sandivas, CC BY-SA 4.0. After liberation in 1945, a review found at least 7,465 prisoners of war in Saltdal as of May 14, 1945—a figure acknowledged as a minimum. Justice came slowly and unevenly. In Belgrade in the fall of 1946, a military court tried thirty-two guards from the Yugoslav camps in Norway...

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]]> Fri, 27 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/u/7/f/v/blood-road-museum-wp/u7fv-blood-road-museum-a-reckoning-delayed.mp3 0:06 4 full Blood Road Museum: Memory Against Forgetting https://qualla.com/blood-road-museum/ Photo credit Sandivas, CC BY-SA 4.0. The Blood Road Museum exists in part because forgetting came so easily. During Norway's postwar legal purge, relatively little public attention was devoted to the prisoner-of-war camps. Christie's report gathered dust for decades. The camps were remote, the victims were foreign, ...

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