Telavåg is a small village in the municipality of Sund, located 39 km north of Bergen, Norway, with a population of about 600. Sund is a municipality in the county of Hordaland, Norway. ... County Hordaland Landscape Midhordland Municipality NO-1201 Administrative centre Bergen Mayor (2004) Herman Friele (H) Official language form Neutral Area  - Total  - Land  - Percentage Ranked 215 465 km² 445 km² 0. ...

Mushroom cloud from the nuclear explosion over Nagasaki rising 18 km into the air. ... April 30 is the 120th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (121st in leap years), with 245 days remaining, as the last day in April. ... 1942 was a common year starting on Thursday (link will take you to calendar). ... County Hordaland Landscape Midhordland Municipality NO-1201 Administrative centre Bergen Mayor (2004) Herman Friele (H) Official language form Neutral Area  - Total  - Land  - Percentage Ranked 215 465 km² 445 km² 0. ... Josef Antonius Heinrich Terboven (May 23, 1898 - May 8, 1945) was a Gauleiter of Essen and later Reichskommissar (Commissary) of Norway from 1940 to 1945, during the German occupation of World War II. He committed suicide at the wars end by blowing himself up with dynamite. ... The German military occupation of Norway started when German forces invaded Norway on April 9, 1940 and ended on May 10, 1945, after the capitulation of German forces in Europe. ... The Battles of Narvik were naval battles between the Royal Navy (Britain) and the Kriegsmarine (Germany) that occurred in April 1940 (during the Second World War). ... In April and early May, 1940 Namsos was the scene of heavy fighting in World War Two between Anglo-French naval and military forces and German military and air forces. ... During World War II, Operation Archery was a British Combined Operations raid on December 27, 1941 against German positions on Vågsøy Island, Norway. ... The Norwegian heavy water sabotage were a series of actions taken by Norwegian saboteurs during World War II to prevent the Germans from acquiring heavy water which could be used to produce nuclear weapons. ...

The Telavåg Tragedy

The village is the location of the Telavåg Tragedy in the spring of 1942, during WWII. 1942 was a common year starting on Thursday (link will take you to calendar). ... German soldiers at the Battle of Stalingrad World War II was the most extensive and costly armed conflict in the history of the world, involving the great majority of the worlds nations, being fought simultaneously in several major theatres, and costing tens of millions of lives. ...

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 held at Trandum were executed as a reprisal. Norwegian Independent Company 1 (NOR.I.C.1, also Norisen) was a SOE group formed in March of 1941 for the purpose of perfoming commando raids in occupied Norway. ... The Gestapo was the official secret police force of Nazi Germany. ... Josef Antonius Heinrich Terboven (May 23, 1898 - May 8, 1945) was a Gauleiter of Essen and later Reichskommissar (Commissary) of Norway from 1940 to 1945, during the German occupation of World War II. He committed suicide at the wars end by blowing himself up with dynamite. ... A concentration camp is a large detention centre created for political opponents, aliens, specific ethnic or religious groups, civilians of a critical war-zone, or other groups of people, often during a war. ... Sachsenhausen may refer to a quarter of Oranienburg in Germany, see Sachsenhausen (Oranienburg), and a detention facility here a quarter of Frankfurt am Main in Germany, see Sachsenhausen (Frankfurt am Main) a municipality of Weimarer Land, see Sachsenhausen (Thüringen) This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other...

External links

• The history of Telavåg (http://home.c2i.net/eiffe/PAGE9.HTM)
• They burnt our homes, they killed our men (http://www.shetland-heritage.co.uk/shetlandbus/pages/telavag.htm)
• The North Sea passage musem in Televåg (http://www.museumsnett.no/nordsjofartmuseet/intro.html)