Death
With the announcement of Germany's surrender, Terboven committed suicide on 8 May 1945 by detonating 50 kg dynamite in a bunker on the Skaugum compound. He died alongside the body of Obergruppenführer Wilhelm Rediess, SS and Police Leader and commander of all SS troops in Norway, who had shot himself earlier.
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