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1943-44: Terror


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The Rescue of the Jews

The head civil servants managed to keep administration in Danish hands, but none the less the German made the presence felt to a higher degree during the last year and a half of the occupation. In October 1943, the occupying power attempted to round up all Jews for deportation. The major part however succeeded in escaping to nearby neutral Sweden. The Germans never attenpted to introduce the yellow Star of David in Denmark, and it is a myth that such an attempt was frustrated by the Danish King, Christian 10. Those Danish Jews who were deported to Theresienstadt were however forced to wear

Terror against civilians

From 1944 onwards, ordinary citizens felt the German policy of terror by way of reprisal sabotages and retaliation killings. The head office of the East-Asian Company, one of Denmark's largest firms, in flames after a reprisal sabotage

Concentration Camps

Members of the Resistance risked torture, execution or deportation to a concentration camp.
Watercolour made in the concentration camp Neuengamme by the artist Per Ulrich