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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[edit] The Telavåg tragedy
The village was the scene of the Telavåg Tragedy in the spring of 1942, during World War II.
After having discovered that many of the inhabitants of Telavåg were hiding two men from the Linge company, two prominent German Gestapo officers were shot dead while trying to arrest them (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. 18 Norwegian prisoners (unrelated to Telavåg) held at the Trandum internment camp were also executed as a reprisal.
The incident inspired the poem Aust-Vågøy by Inger Hagerup. The poem, with its now famous opening lines "De brente våre gårder. De drepte våre menn (They burnt our homes. They murdered our men)", was soon being distributed illegally around the country.
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