Editing Josef Terboven (section)

===Repression and crimes against humanity===
Terboven established multiple [[concentration camp]]s in Norway, including [[Falstad concentration camp]] near [[Levanger (town)|Levanger]] and [[Bredtvet concentration camp]] in [[Oslo]] in late 1941. At one of those camps on 18 July 1942 the [[Beisfjord massacre]] took place, the murder of hundreds of Yugoslavian political prisoners and prisoners-of-war by German and Norwegian concentration camp guards. Some 288 prisoners were shot to death, and many others were burned to death when the barracks were set on fire. Terboven had ordered the massacre a few days earlier. In July 1942, at least one German guard assigned to the [[Korgen]] prison camp was killed. The commandant ordered retribution: execution by gunfire for "39 prisoners at Korgen and 20 at [[Vefsn Municipality|Osen]]";. In the days that followed, Terboven also ordered retribution, and around 400 prisoners shot and killed in various camps.<ref>{{Cite web | date=26 October 2016 | title=Da nordmenn myrdet fanger i Korgen &#124; Tekster og slikt | url=https://finnbakk.wordpress.com/2016/10/26/myrdetkrigsfanger/ | website=Finnbakk.Wordpress.com | access-date=25 September 2017 | quote="Da to fanger i Korgen drepte en tysk vokter og rømte, ga kommandant Hesse ordre om at det som hevn skulle skytes 39 fanger i Korgen og 20 i Osen. Dette var 17. juli 1942. Hesse startet myrderiene med sjøl å skyte flere fanger. De nærmeste dagene ble det på Reichskommissar Terbovens personlige ordre skutt om lag 400 krigsfanger i forskjellige leire"}}</ref>{{self-published source|date=April 2025}}

From 1941, Terboven increasingly focused on crushing the [[Norwegian resistance movement]], which engaged in acts of [[sabotage]] and [[assassination]] against the Germans. On 17 September, Terboven decreed that special SS and Police Tribunals would have jurisdiction over Norwegian citizens who violated his decrees. They were summary proceedings with the accused provided no adequate defense. The trials were not open to the public, and the proceedings were not published. Sentences were carried out shortly after they were pronounced with no right of appeal. It is estimated that some 150 individuals were sentenced to death by these tribunals. Many more were sentenced to long terms of hard labour.{{sfn|Miller|Schulz|2021|pp=450-451}}

On 26 April 1942, the Nazis learned that two members of the resistance were being sheltered by the inhabitants of [[Telavåg]], a small fishing village. When the [[Gestapo]] arrived, shots were exchanged, and two Gestapo agents were killed. Terboven was outraged and personally led a reprisal raid on 30 April that was quick and brutal. All buildings were burned to the ground, all boats were sunk or confiscated and all livestock taken away. All men in the village were either executed or sent to the [[Sachsenhausen concentration camp]], in Germany. Of the 72 who were deported from Telavåg, 31 were murdered in captivity. The women and the children were imprisoned for two years. Another 18 Norwegian prisoners unrelated to Telavåg, who were held at the Trandum internment camp, were also executed as reprisals. In another incident, the shooting of two German police officials on 6 September 1942 led to Terboven personally declaring [[martial law in Trondheim in 1942|martial law in Trondheim]] from 5 to 12 October 1942. He imposed a curfew from 8:00&nbsp;p.m. to 5:00&nbsp;a.m. and suppressed all newspapers, public assemblies and railroad transportation. On Terboven's orders, ten prominent citizens were executed in reprisal, and their assets were confiscated. In addition, Terboven set up an [[ad hoc]] extrajudicial tribunal to try Norwegians considered "hostile to the state". An additional 24 men were tried and summarily executed over the next three days.{{sfn|Miller|Schulz|2021|pp=451-453}}

Despite the small number of Jews in Norway's population (around 1,800), Terboven persecuted them relentlessly. Some 930 managed to escape to neighboring [[Sweden]], but some 770 were rounded up and deported to Germany. The main deportation occurred on 26 November 1942, when 532 Jews were shipped to [[Stettin]] aboard the ''[[SS Donau (1929)|SS Donau]]''. From there, they were transported to the [[Auschwitz concentration camp]], and only 9 survived the war. On 25 February 1943, another 158 were similarly deported aboard the [[MS Gotenland|M''S Gotenland'']], and only six survived.{{sfn|Miller|Schulz|2021|p=446}}