Harald Andreas Gerotti Slåttelid (20 January 1895 – 1 March 1943) was a Norwegian trade unionist, newspaper editor, and communist resistance member. He was born in

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, to a father from

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and a mother from

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. He worked in

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, and married Sigrid Johansen from

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here in 1918. They had three children. He was a member of the

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from 1909, and was organized in a union from 1911. He had a modest technical education. He chaired the local trade union from 1922, and was a board member of the Norwegian Union of Electricians from 1922 to 1923. From 1923 to 1930 he was a member of the supervisory council of the

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. He was a member of the executive committee of the

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for many years. In 1923 he joined the Communist Party. He edited the newspaper '' Hardanger Arbeiderblad'', and chaired the Communist Party in Odda from 1926. He continued his work for the Communist Party during the

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, when the party was illegal. He was arrested by the Nazis on 26 May 1942, and imprisoned in

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and

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. At his trial, on 27 February 19434, he was sentenced to death, and then placed in the death cell "" at Grini. On 1 March 1943 he was executed at Trandumskogen. A press release from 1 March, signed and titled "" appeared in the newspapers. Seventeen persons had been sentenced to death and executed, and Slåttelid's name was included on the list. In 1945 a total of 194 bodies were found in mass graves in the woods of Trandum, 173 Norwegians, six British and fifteen Soviet citizens. His son Ørnulf (sometimes given as Ørnulv) Slåttelid, born 1919, became the illegal leader of the

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after

Arne Gauslaa Arne Gauslaa (8 February 1913 – 30 October 1942) was a Norwegian communist, newspaper editor and resistance member. Biography He was born in Solum, to a mother from Solum and a father from Herefoss. His father Olav Gauslaa was a member of Solum ...

in 1942. He was arrested by the Nazis in the same year, and committed suicide in prison.

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