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Author | : David Lampe |
Publisher | : Pickle Partners Publishing |
Total Pages | : 218 |
Release | : 2016-08-09 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1787200906 |
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A HISTORY OF FIVE YEARS OF SECRET WARFARE AGAINST THE NAZI OCCUPATION Students were the first to resist Entire cities went on strike All the Danish population worked to save their Jewish countrymen V-2 component factories were destroyed in pitched battles General Montgomery described the Danish Resistance as “second to none.” By the end of the war, illegal newspapers had published a total of about 26 million issues; radio guides for Allied aircraft had been set up on the coasts; boats were running timetable services between Britain, Sweden and Denmark; illegal broadcasts were transmitted regularly; German ships were unable to move from Danish harbors; and vast numbers of German troops were kept from the main fighting points by Danish sabotage of the railways and airfields, and of the factories that the Nazis thought would be invulnerable sources of vital air force and military components. It is a fantastic story, full of tales of impudent, almost foolhardy heroism. With every reason to collaborate in safety, the Danes established an international news bureau that provided the Allies with a continuous service of inside information; they shipped seven thousand Jews to safety; they organized strikes; they spirited away most of Denmark’s tug fleet; they even established an office of the British Ministry of Food in Copenhagen. A quarter of a million feet of film recording their activities were shot by the Resistance under the eyes of the Gestapo, including photographs of many of their sabotage raids, which were meticulously planned. To the Danish Resistance the Nazis were not all-conquering supermen but dangerous fools to be parried at every turn. Their story is one of which any nation would be proud. Illustrated with 19 photographs.
Author | : Carsten Holbraad |
Publisher | : UCL Press |
Total Pages | : 240 |
Release | : 2017-02-06 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1911307495 |
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For five years during World War II, Denmark was occupied by Germany. While the Danish reaction to this period of its history has been extensively discussed in Danish-language publications, it has not until now received a thorough treatment in English. Set in the context of modern Danish foreign relations, and tracing the country’s responses to successive crises and wars in the region, Danish Reactions to German Occupation brings a full overview of the occupation to an English-speaking audience. Holbraad carefully dissects the motivations and ideologies driving conduct during the occupation, and his authoritative coverage of the preceding century provides a crucial link to understanding the forces behind Danish foreign policy divisions. Analysing the conduct of a traumatised and strategically exposed small state bordering on an aggressive great power, the book traces a development from reluctant cooperation to active resistance. In doing so, Holbraad surveys and examines the subsequent, and not yet quite finished, debate among Danish historians about this contested period, which takes place between those siding with the resistance and those more inclined to justify limited cooperation with the occupiers – and who sometimes even condone various acts of collaboration.
Author | : Michael Burgan |
Publisher | : Capstone |
Total Pages | : 34 |
Release | : 2010 |
Genre | : Denmark |
ISBN | : 0756542987 |
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A look at the Danish resistance to the Nazis during World War II.
Author | : Jørgen Kieler |
Publisher | : Gefen Publishing House Ltd |
Total Pages | : 380 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : Denmark |
ISBN | : 9789652293978 |
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Writing in lively tones with a wit that reveals his indomitable spirit, the author paints a vivid picture of the resistance movement in Denmark, with detailed descriptions of many of the Holger Danske group's daring sabotage operations.
Author | : Ellen Levine |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : Denmark |
ISBN | : 9780823417551 |
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An account of people in Denmark who risked their lives to protect and rescue their Jewish neighbors from the Nazis during World War II.
Author | : Nathaniel Benchley |
Publisher | : HarperCollins Publishers |
Total Pages | : 280 |
Release | : 1974 |
Genre | : Denmark |
ISBN | : |
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The experiences of a sixteen-year-old Danish boy during the German occupation of his country in World War II. Two teenagers turn from pranks to sabotage in this tense story of a people pushed to their limits by the tyranny of the Nazi regime in Denmark.
Author | : Irving Werstein |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 184 |
Release | : 1967 |
Genre | : World War, 1939-1945 |
ISBN | : |
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Describes Danish contributions to World War II's Allied cause through such resistance activities as rescue and evacuation of Danish Jews, sabotage of armament factories, shortwave communication with London, illegal press, and recovery of arms, radios, and supplies.
Author | : Robin Reilly |
Publisher | : Weidenfeld & Nicolson |
Total Pages | : 223 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780304361595 |
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Denmark's situation in World War II was unique. The Danish struggle against German occupation took place against a background of a continuing Danish administration left, mostly, alone by the occupying power; resisting Danes were put into a moral dilemma. But freedom didn't last, and prominent figures were imprisoned in the Shell building in the centre of Copenhagen. The RAF raid on that building was one of the most difficult and daring low-level daylight raids of the whole war. It was a triumph of planning and daring execution; but, as the result of an accident, it was also a sickening and terrible tragedy. This is an account of the Danish Resistance Movement and the RAF raid on the Copenhagen headquarters of the Gestapo in March 1945.
Author | : Leo Goldberger |
Publisher | : NYU Press |
Total Pages | : 260 |
Release | : 1987 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780814730119 |
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"An immensely valuable ocntribution. As the last generation of witnesses to the Holocaust testify to its horrors, tehy must also testify to its heroes - those who risked all to safe lives. These movingly told stories restore our faith in the human spirit." —William Shirer "The mystery of the rescue phenomenon will probably always elude us. As the rescuers' narratives in this remarkable volume show, the acts of saving Jews seemed spontaneous and natural, and thus the mystery of the rescue act begins to unravel radiantly. The insights which this interdisciplinary collection of essays subtly pieces together s how in unique fashion the preconditions, or the possibilities, of individual and collective courage." —Dennis B. Klein, author of Jewish Origins of the Psychoanalytic Movement A distinguished group of internationally known individuals, Jews and non-Jews, rescuers and rescued, offer their enriching first-person accounts and reflections that explore the question: Why did the Danes risk their lives to rescue the Jewish population?
Author | : Ellen Levine |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 184 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : |
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An account of people in Denmark who risked their lives to protect and rescue their Jewish neighbors from the Nazis during World War II.