- Telavåg
Telavåg (sometimes spelled Tælavåg) is a small village in the municipality of Sund, located 39 km south west of
Bergen, Norway , with a population of about 600.Telavåg tragedy
The village was the scene of the Telavåg Tragedy in the spring of
1942 , duringWorld War II .On April 26, 1942, after having discovered that some of the inhabitants of Telavåg were hiding two men from the Linge company, the Gestapo arrived to arrest the Norwegian officers. Shots were exchanged, and two prominent German
Gestapo officers (Johannes Behrens and Henry Bertram) and Arne Værum were shot dead."Reichskommisar"
Josef Terboven personally oversaw the reaction, which was quick and brutal. As the villagers were watching, all buildings were destroyed, all boats were sunk or confiscated, 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 from Telavåg, 31 were murdered in captivity. Women and children were imprisoned for two years. 18 Norwegian prisoners (unrelated to Telavåg) held at theTrandum internment camp were also executed as a reprisal. Though smaller in scale, this is often compared toLidice andOradour-sur-Glane .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.ee also
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List of wars and disasters by death toll References
* [http://home.c2i.net/eiffe/PAGE9.HTM The history of Telavåg]
* [http://www.shetland-heritage.co.uk/shetlandbus/pages/telavag.htm They burnt our homes, they killed our men]External links
* [http://www.museumsnett.no/nordsjofartmuseet/intro.html The North Sea passage museum in Televåg]
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