Harald Slåttelid

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

[1] A press release from 1 March, signed Der Höhere SS- und Polizeiführer Nord, SS-Obergruppenführer und General der Polizei Rediess and titled "Dødsdom over 17 nordmenn" appeared in the newspapers.

Seventeen persons had been sentenced to death and executed, and Slåttelid's name was included on the list.

[6] 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.

[7] His son Ørnulf (sometimes given as Ørnulv) Slåttelid, born 1919, became the illegal leader of the Young Communist League after Arne Gauslaa in 1942.