Danish Resistance facts
While investigating facts about Danish Resistance Museum and Danish Resistance Ww2, I found out little known, but curios details like:
The rescue of Denmark’s Jews during WWII was so successful, that 99% of the country’s Jewish population escaped. From October 1943, 7,220 of Denmark's 7,800 Jews were ferried to Sweden. At the request of the group, Yad Vashem honoured the Danish Resistance as a whole, than as individuals.
how did the danish resistance operate?
Denmark was one of the few countries that resisted turning over its Jewish citizens during the Holocaust. The Danish king told the PM at the time that if the Germans tried to force Danish Jews to wear a yellow star, then he would wear one too.
What did the danish resistance do?
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what was the danish resistance?
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About the Churchill Club, a group of highschoolers who started a Danish resistance against the Nazis because their government and army didn't put up a very good fight
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The legless Artic Explorer Peter Freuchen, who was a member of the Danish resistance during WW2, openly claimed to be Jewish whenever he witnessed anti-semitism, he was imprisoned by the Germans for this reason and was sentenced to death but he managed to escape and flee to Sweden.
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In one night in 1943, the Danish Resistance organized the escape of over 90% of Denmarks Jews to Sweden. That means around 7000 of Denmarks Jews escaped, with only about 500 being captured
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Danish people in the state of Schleswig during the 1900s, ruled over by Germany at the time, bred a very specific pig with the colours of the Denmark flag- the 'Danish Protest Pig'- in order to resist Germanic influence
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Lis Mellemgaard, a Danish resistance fighter during WW2 survived the war because she stayed home due to laryngitis, instead of going to a meeting with her resistance group. The meeting was raided and the resistance members arrested, imprisoned and later executed.
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The Danish scientist, poet, and resistance man Piet Hein got his first short poem published in a nationwide newspaper in Nazi-occupied Denmark because the Nazi censors didn't catch its anti-nazi/pro-resistance message
