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...Army's General Karatkov was asked in Copenhagen when Soviet troops were going to leave Denmark's Bornholm Island. He made the most conciliatory answer possible: their occupation would be "exactly as long as Marshal Stalin, President Truman and Prime Minister Churchill decide...
After a last drunken, hysterical broadcast, Joyce hid in a Flensburg hotel until he was shooed out by British soldiers, who thought he was a German. Later, on a road leading to Denmark, he met two British officers who were gathering firewood. Joyce could not resist the temptation to show off his ripe Oxonian accent...
Party's End. British tanks and infantry rounded up smaller fry, seizing arrogant Wehrmacht officers' sidearms, ending the gay parties that had been held in the Admiral's schoolhouse compound. Soldiers from Norway and Denmark strode about Flensburg, boasting: "We were never beaten." A British sergeant knocked one of them down, and said: "Well, you've been beaten now." Disarmed marines were marched through the streets, still singing We Sail against England...
...have just heard that TIME is also the first American magazine to return to Norway and Denmark - with more than 17,000 copies of our Stockholm-printed edition distributed there this week...
...other kings fared better. Five years after Hitler's motorized armies swarmed into Denmark, King Christian X emerged from his self-imposed retirement at Amalienborg and returned to his capital. The long night of German occupation was over...