Word: denmark
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Judas Rates. In Denmark, German authorities advertised for informers, offered $57.90 a week for men, $28.95 a week for women, plus bonuses...
After the invasion of Russia, the Germans formed two corporations for a continent-wide exploitation of the fast-growing herb. They transplanted kok-sagyz to Germany, Denmark, Finland, Poland, the Balkans. Best results were obtained along the Danube. Now that blockaders are sinking more & more rubber-runners from Japan, and bombers are drastically cutting buna-S production at home, kok-sagyz from Russia is paying off for the Nazis...
...second announcement was even better than the first. A long-term contract would give the Dominion's farmers long-term priority in the British market, which belonged mostly to Denmark before...
Four men knocked on the door of the parsonage at Vedersoe, in Denmark's western Jutland. Pastor Kaj Munk was telephoning a friend. He said: "The Germans have come for me." Then he hung up. It was the second time in five months that the invader had laid hands on Denmark's most outspoken anti-Nazi pamphleteer and preacher, who is also the country's foremost poet and playwright (TIME, Sept. 27). The first time the Germans held him two months, sent him home with instructions to confine his preaching to tiny Vedersoe, keep his political views...
...Copenhagen's Royal Theatre, where many of Pastor Munk's most moving plays had first been performed, Kjell Abell, a writer, walked on stage in the middle of the second act. Said he: "Denmark's great poet has died. The curtain cannot be dropped, but I ask you to rise in tribute to his memory." The audience rose...