Josef Terboven
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Josef Antonius Heinrich Terboven was a German Nazi Party official and politician who was the long-serving Gauleiter of Gau Essen and the Reichskommissar for Norway during the German occupation.
Terboven in 1942
Terboven (seated second from right) with Vidkun Quisling (left), Heinrich Himmler (second from left), and Nikolaus von Falkenhorst (right).
Skaugum
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Skaugum is an estate, manor house and the official residence of King Haakon VIII and his wife, Queen Mette-Marit. The estate is located in Asker, 19 km southwest of Oslo, by the foot of the mountain S
Josef Terboven
…on 7 May 1945. On 8 May 1945, the day of Germany's surrender, Terboven died of suicide by detonating 50 kg (110 lbs) of dynamite in a bunker on the Skaugum compound in Norway. His family survived in West Germany, and his wife, Ilse (Stahl) Terboven died in 1972. Terboven was born in Essen, the son of minor…
Skaugum in 1932
The original Skaugum building prior to the fire in 1930
Aerial view of Skaugum
The royal family at Skaugum during a 1974 visit from Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden