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Word: dansk (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...pale dark of a midsummer night, So silent Danes drove up in borrowed trucks before the gates of Copenhagen's Dansk RiÜel Syndikat, leading manufacturers of automatic rifles for German use. The Danes disarmed the guards, cut the phone lines, ran through the plant buildings calling out the night shift. Then they carefully planted 15 bombs, set the fuses, started the factory sirens and sped away. The detonations did Danish hearts good. The damage was "formidable," Free Danes said, and the ensuing fire got wholly out of hand. It was the biggest job of sabotage to date...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DENMARK: Summer Festival | 7/3/1944 | See Source »

...Dansk National-Socialistisk-Arbejderpartei (Danish Nazi party) under ridiculous Doctor Fritz Clausen has only 30,000 members, but there are nine other Danish-Nazi splinter groups. The Germans encourage this splintering to forward the disintegration of the country's political system. They hope to absorb Denmark whole...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DENMARK: Shadow of the Swastika | 7/21/1941 | See Source »

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