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Part of Tragedies and Disasters Week Janet Oakley is a historian and writer of historical fiction and non-fiction. Her undergraduate work started as an intern in the Anthropological Archives at the Smithsonian Institute followed by a year ...See morePart of Tragedies and Disasters Week Janet Oakley is a historian and writer of historical fiction and non-fiction. Her undergraduate work started as an intern in the Anthropological Archives at the Smithsonian Institute followed by a year as a volunteer and stipend student after graduation. Over the years she has designed and taught historical curriculum for museums, schools, and national parks. For eleven years she was the curator of education at a county museum. She lives in the Pacific NW. Her interest in Norway in WWII came from her research and interviews for her two novels set in that time. Telavåg played an important role in the secret North Sea boat traffic between Norway and Great Britain. On 26th April 1942, after discovering that some of the inhabitants of were hiding two men from the Linge (Resistance) the Gestapo arrived to arrest the men. Shots were exchanged, and two prominent German Gestapo officers were killed in the incident. What followed became known as the Telavåg Massacre. Written by Paul Woodadge See less