Telavåg
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Telavåg is a small village in the municipality of Sund, located 39 km south west of Bergen, Norway, with a population of about 600.
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The Telavåg Tragedy
The village is the location of the Telavåg Tragedy in the spring of 1942, during WWII.After having discovered that people from Telavåg were hiding two men from the Linge company, two prominent German Gestapo officers were shot dead while trying to make an arrest (Johannes Behrens, and another known only as "Bertram"). Reichskommisar Josef Terboven personally oversaw the reaction, which was quick and brutal. As the villagers were watching, all buildings and boats were destroyed or burned, and all livestock taken away. All men in the village were either executed or sent to the concentration camp at Sachsenhausen. Of the 72 who were deported, 31 were murdered in captivity. Women and children were imprisoned for two years. 19 Norwegian prisoners (unrelated to Telavåg) held at Trandum internment camp were also executed as a reprisal.
The incident inspired the poem "Aust Vågøy" by Inger Hagerup. With it's now famous opening lines "De brente våre gårder. De drepte våre menn (They burnt our homes. They murdered our men)", the text was soon distributed illegally around the country.
See also
External links
- [The history of Telavåg]
- [They burnt our homes, they killed our men]
- [The North Sea passage musem in Televåg]
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