Sund, Norway - Telav G, Nils O. Golten, Klokkarvik, Skogsv G (Paperback)

Chapters: Telav g, Nils O. Golten, Klokkarvik, Skogsv g. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 22. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Sund, Norway - Sund was established as a formannskapsdistrikt on January 1, 1838. Austevoll was separated from Sund on January 1, 1886. The municipality is named after the farm Sund, where the first church was built. The name is identical with the word "sund," which translates into English as "strait." The coat-of-arms is from 1988, and shows a lighthouse. On April 26, 1942, after having discovered that two men from the Linge company were being hidden in Telav g, the Gestapo arrived to arrest the Norwegian officers. Shots were exchanged, and two prominent German Gestapo officers, Johannes Behrens and Henry Bertram, and the Norwegian Arne V rum, were shot dead. Reichskommissar Josef Terboven ordered the Gestapo to retaliate, burning all buildings in the village, executing or sending the men to the Sachsenhausen concentration camp, and imprisoning the women and children for two years. In addition, 18 Norwegian prisoners at a Norwegian internment camp were killed as a reprisal. The event has since become known as the "Telav g tragedy," and is sometimes compared to similar World War II atrocities, such as the Lidice massacre, with higher death tolls. Sund covers the southern part of the island of Store Sotra, as well as the many islands that surround it. The largest of the smaller islands are Toftar y, Ler y, Bjelkar y, Tyss y, Ris y, Vard y, Golten, and Viks y. In total, the municipality encompasses 466 islands and skerries, which gives it a total coastline of 110 km. The highest peak is F rdesveten, at 284 metres above sea level. The fjord separating Store-Sotra from the mainland, Krossfjorden, is historically the most used sea route into Bergen, and is as m...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=367370