Background
Dalland was born in Bergen as the son of Christoffer Dalland from Manger and Ingeborg Tvedt from Meland.
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Career
They had two children. From 1929 to 1930 he led the Young Communist League of Norway. During the occupation of Norway by Nazi Germany, he was in charge of organizing the illegal activities of the Communist Party in Western Norway.
He was arrested by the Nazis in 1940, and imprisoned for six months at the Ulven concentration camp.
He was arrested for the second time on 8 September 1942, and imprisoned in the Grini detention camp and Møllergata 19. He was sentenced to death in a trial on 27 February 1943, along with eight prisoners from Odda.
On 1 March 1943 he was executed at Trandum. A press release signed by Der Höhere SSund Polizeiführer Nord, Steamship-Obergruppenführer und General der Polizei Rediess, titled "Dødsdom over 17 nordmenn", appeared in Norwegian newspapers.
Dalland"s name was included on the list among seventeen persons who had been sentenced to death and executed.
He was found in a mass grave at Trandum after the war, and buried at the Møllendal cemetery in Bergen. A total of 194 bodies were found in mass graves in the woods of Trandum, 173 Norwegians, six British and fifteen Soviet citizens.
Membership
He was a dock worker in Bergen, a steward of the local trade union, and a member of the central committee of the Communist Party.
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Nationality
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Political Party
Communist Party