Bjarne Dalland (27 August 1906 – 1 March 1943) was a Norwegian

trade union A trade union (labor union in American English), often simply referred to as a union, is an organization of workers intent on "maintaining or improving the conditions of their employment", ch. I such as attaining better wages and benefits ( ...

ist, politician and communist resistance member. Dalland was born in

Bergen Bergen (), historically Bjørgvin, is a city and municipality in Vestland county on the west coast of Norway. , its population is roughly 285,900. Bergen is the second-largest city in Norway. The municipality covers and is on the peninsula of ...

as the son of Christoffer Dalland from

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and Ingeborg Tvedt from

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. He married Birgith Hansen from Bergen in 1933. They had two children. His brother

Randulf Dalland Randulf Dalland (4 May 1900 – 9 November 1984) was a Norwegian politician for the Norwegian Communist Party, Communist Party. Dalland was born in Bergen and was the brother of Bjarne Dalland. He elected to the Stortinget, Norwegian Parliam ...

was a member of the

Parliament of Norway The Storting ( no, Stortinget ) (lit. the Great Thing) is the supreme legislature of Norway, established in 1814 by the Constitution of Norway. It is located in Oslo. The unicameral parliament has 169 members and is elected every four years bas ...

from

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. His brother Thorvald Einar Dalland, born 1908, perished with the ship ''Blia'' while trying to escape to the United Kingdom in 1941. From 1929 to 1930 he led the

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. He was a dock worker in Bergen, a steward of the local trade union, and a member of the central committee of the

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. During the

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, he was in charge of organizing the illegal activities of the Communist Party in Western Norway. He was arrested by the Nazis in 1940, and imprisoned for six months at the

Ulven concentration camp Ulven detention camp (German language, German: ''Polizeihäftlingslager Ulven,'' no, Ulven fangeleir ("''Ulven"'' means "the wolf")) was a Nazi concentration camps in Norway, concentration camp in Norway that was located in what was Os, Hordaland ...

. He was arrested for the second time on 8 September 1942, and imprisoned in the

Grini detention camp '', '' no, Grini fangeleir'', location=Bærum, Viken, Norway, location map=Viken#Norway, built by=Norway, original use=Constructed as a women's prison, operated by=Nazi Germany, notable inmates= List of Grini prisoners, liberated by= Harry Söderm ...

and

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. At trial on 27 February 1944, He and eight other prisoners from

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were sentenced to death. At the same trial his brother Hans was sentenced to ten years imprisonment in Germany. On 1 March 1943 he was executed at

Trandumskogen Trandumskogen is a forest located in Ullensaker, Akershus county, Norway. It was the site of one of the first discoveries in May 1945 of Nazi Germany, German mass graves in Norway. The German executioner Oskar Hans was the officer in command of t ...

. A press release signed by , titled "", appeared in Norwegian newspapers. Dalland's name was included on the list among seventeen persons who had been sentenced to death and executed. He was found in a

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Trandum Trandum leir is a former army camp Ullensaker, Norway. The camp was shut down when the civilian airport at Gardermoen was built since most of the buildings were located directly underneath the flightpath for planes landing there. The woods near T ...

after the war, and buried at the Møllendal cemetery in Bergen. A total of 194 bodies were found in mass graves in the woods of Trandum, 173 Norwegians, six British and fifteen Soviet citizens.

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