Word: denmark
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Trawling in close order through the choppy Skagerrak off the northwest tip of Denmark early one morning last week, five Swedish fishing vessels sighted three dark shapes approaching. The Swedes knew they were in international waters, knew their hulls were a bright blue and gold, knew their flags were flying. They saw that the newcomers were German minesweepers...
...before made no difference; future trespassers would get the same treatment. Then the German radio told the world that the Swedes were showing an unneutral attitude, behaving like enemies. The same day, at Stockholm Stadium, thousands of Swedes cheered a Danish team, roared out Denmark's anthem...
After 40 months' service as Hitler's "model protectorate," Denmark was coming of age; resistance was losing its spotty, amateur character, sabotage was turning professional. Fifteen thousand Danish guards proved unable to catch more than a handful of saboteurs...
Downpour. Sunday morning Copenhagen woke before dawn to the sound of firing from the port. Denmark's tiny Navy was committing suicide. Some were trying to escape to Sweden, some were scuttled by their crews where they lay. German planes caught and sank at least one that fled, but nine reached Sweden. There was a skirmish at the Royal Barracks. Danes and Germans fell in a clash at the Amalienborg, where some of the royal family watched and waited. The battle was heard in Sweden, 20 miles across the Ore Sund...
...What guided the Germans to put Norway under virtual martial law? To make fresh demands for collaboration from Denmark's stubborn government? A mounting wave of sabotage? Or fear of an Allied sweep across the North...