De Tellow, Willem Adolf “Wim”, born 30-01-1901 in Haarlem, 
Haarlem Municipality, Noord-Holland, Netherlands. Wim de Tello was since 1932 as a sports reporter employed by Querido in Amsterdam since 1931 councilor for the SDAP 
in his hometown Heemstede. The Social Democratic Workers’ Party (SDAP) was a Dutch social democratic political party that existed from 1894 to 1946. The party emerged from a split within the Social Democratic League and eventually became part of the Labour Party. 
De Arbeiderspers is a publishing house based in Amsterdam.
William also was a board member of various sports clubs. He was also chairman of the Heemstede Chess Club and board member of the Heemstede Sports Parks.
During 1941 Willem became involved in the manufacture and distribution of Het Parool. 
When the printing of the magazine was in danger – Nos 19-24 were pressed by on 21-10-1941 arrested WS Eikelboom et al; JW Dupker considered it after pressing No. 25 too dangerous to continue -. Tello approached the printer Willem Johannes “Wim” Gertenbach
in Zandvoort, who had cared for the war SDAP printing. Willem Gerttenbach was arrested by the Sicherheitspolizei 
on 31-01-1942, aged 38. On 05-02-1943, Gertenbach was shot together with seventeen other people from Het Parool on the Leusderheide. 
From 01-11-1941 (no. 28) Het Parool Gertenbach made in an edition of 7-8000 copies. After Gertenbach was arrested on 31-01-1942, the Security Police found a package in his printing sheets bearing the address of the Tello. Three days later he was arrested ambushed by the Sipo working Hague police detectives Poos and Slagter and café Boekenroode in Heemstede. During the occupation, hundreds of Dutch police officers actively served the German cause as members of the NSB, Rechtsfront or German SS. The NSB, The National Socialist Movement led by Mussert, Anton Adrian “Ad”. 
in the Netherlands (NSB) was a Dutch political party that existed from 1931 to 1945. The NSB adhered to the ideology of National Socialism, presented itself from an anti-democratic perspective not as a party but as a movement and functioned as a collaboration party during the German occupation of the Netherlands in World War II. The Rechtsfront 
was founded by the Alkmaar judge H. Fruin on 12-08-1940 on the instructions of Anton Mussert and was an NSB organisation. The Rechtsfront aimed to unite everyone who was involved in finding the law, applying the law and enforcing the law. The condition was that (aspiring) members had to be prepared to cooperate in the construction of a new, national socialist state, as advocated by the NSB. Technically, the Rechtsfront was divided into departments of Justice, Politics, Legal Profession, Notary, Tax Consultants and Accountants.
The German SS, The Schutzstaffel (German: ’Protection Squadron’; SS; also stylised with Armanen runes as ᛋᛋ) was a major paramilitary organisation under Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party in Nazi Germany, and later throughout German-occupied Europe during World War II. Their command was Himmler, Heinrich Luitpold “Reichsheini”.
After undergoing one year imprisonment, Willem De Tello he wrote in his farewell letter: “Tell every one of our acquaintances, who as many of the party and in Heemstede, that I gave love to my life in the firm conviction that we prevail.”
Death and burial ground of De Tellow, Willem Adolf “Wim”.
William was arrested by the Sicherheitspolizei on 31-01-1942. In Utrecht, De Tello and Gertenbach stood trial with twenty-one other suspects in the first Parool trial. On 19-12-1942, they were sentenced to death. On 05-02-1943 Gertenbach was executed together with seventeen other people from Het Parool on the Leusderheide. After his death, De Tello was buried in a mass grave. Gertenbach was reburied at the General Cemetery in Zandvoort, with his family. 
on 19-12-1945. Willem Johannes “Wim” Gertenbach’s wife and three children, who had been evacuated to Haarlem, died on 16-04-1943, during the bombing of the Amsterdam neighborhood in Haarlem. Wim Gertenbach was posthumously awarded the Resistance Cross. 
His name is listed on the 
Honor Roll of the Fallen 1940-1945.
De Tello wrote in his farewell letter: “Tell each of our acquaintances, of whom there are so many in the party and in Heemstede, that I gladly gave my life in the firm conviction that we will triumph.”
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