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TelavgTelavg is a small village in the municipality of Sund, located 39 km north of Bergen, Norway, with a population of about 600. The Telavg Tragedy The village is the location of the Telavg Tragedy in the spring of 1942, during WWII. After having discovered that people from Telavg had been hiding two men from the Linge company. When trying to capture them, two prominent German Gestapo officers were shot dead. Reichskommisar Josef Terboven came personally to oversee the reaction, which was quick and brutal. While the villagers were watching, all buildings and boats were destroyed and burned down, and all livestock drowned. All the men in the village were either executed or put in concentration camps, while women and children were imprisoned for two years. External links
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