Ingvald Garbo (3 October 1891 – 22 November 1941) was a Norwegian resistance member. He was born in

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, to a mother from Bergen and a father from

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. He married Sara Haugland (1897–1977) in 1924, and had two children. His son

Gunnar Garbo Gunnar Garbo (19 April 1924 – 29 June 2016) was a Norwegian journalist, politician, and ambassador. He represented the Liberal Party of Norway at the Norwegian Parliament during four electoral periods, from 1958 to 1973, and was leader for ...

, born 1924, was a notable politician. He was a teacher by occupation. He also contributed to newspapers such as '' Bergens Arbeiderblad''. During the

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he listened to illegal radio broadcasts from the

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, and distributed the news among German soldiers. He was discovered by the German occupying authorities, arrested on 8 October 1941 and executed on 22 November 1941. He was the first Norwegian with a connection to the illegal press to be executed, and according to

Berit Nøkleby Berit Nøkleby (25 September 1939 – 26 July 2018) was a Norwegian historian. She was born in Drammen, and is a cand.philol. by education. She has contributed to several books on the German occupation of Norway. She wrote book II and IV of ...

's count the seventeenth overall.

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