Word: denmark
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Denmark's old (73) King Christian, immured in Copenhagen by the Germans, heard that his subjects in Iceland, occupied by U.S. forces, were planning to establish an independent republic...
Forthwith he drafted a rebuke which made no distinction whatever between the occupying Germans and the occupying Yanks. Growled Christian: ". . . Decisions which involve cutting forever connections between Icelandic people and their King should not be realized as long as both Iceland and Denmark are occupied by foreign powers. . . . We cannot acknowledge the change of constitution that the Althing [Icelandic Parliament] and the Icelandic Government have decided upon without negotiation with...
...Germans suddenly showed panicky signs of uncertainty over Denmark, where a wave of sabotage had broken out. From Sweden came reports (possibly Nazi-inspired) that the Wehrmacht had rushed in heavy reinforcements, seven infantry and two armored divisions, to bolster its position along the Danish Jutland peninsula...
...Denmark's Crown Prince Frederik, 45, and Crown Princess Ingrid, 34, daughter of Sweden's Crown Prince Gustaf Adolf: their second daughter, second non-heir to occupied Denmark's throne ; in Stockholm...
Field Marshal Erwin Rommel, fresh from a tour of Nazi defenses in captive Denmark, paraded ceremoniously through Copenhagen. Stony-faced Danes lingered on the sidewalks long after the famed "Desert Fox" had passed...