Word: denmark
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Under Generals von Falkenhorst, Daluege and Dietl, there are twelve Nazi divisions in Norway, five in Denmark, five to seven in Finland. Many of the troops in Norway are over age, wounded in other campaigns...
Across the narrow waters of the Öre Sund word came to Sweden last week that 1,800 Gestapomen, sent to Copenhagen specially for the job, had broken into Jewish homes and synagogues during Rosh Hashanah, arresting most of Denmark's 10,000 Jews. The reports said the Germans planned to ship their prisoners to the charnel houses of Poland...
Next day the Swedish Government told the German Government that there was immediate, unconditional sanctuary for all Danish Jews in Sweden. The Germans ignored the offer. But at week's end upwards of 1,000 wretched Jews from Denmark had found their way across the cold Öre Sund to merciful Sweden...
Best known of the arrested pastors is 45-year-old Kaj Munk, rector of Vedersoe in West Jutland. He is not only famed for his preaching ("like a rain of sparks from a lightning rod") but is also Denmark's No. 1 playwright (Cant, An Idealist, The Word...
...They fight for the ideals that I, too, have sworn to fight for. If for fear of men I should sit a passive onlooker I should be a traitor to my Christian faith, to my Danish mind and to my clergyman's oath. It is better to damage Denmark with regard to Germany than to Jesus...