Denmark: The Great Escape (TRIH ep 284)
1943 · Resource
This episode examines the rescue of Denmark's Jewish population during the German occupation in World War II. After the swift German invasion on 9 April 1940, Denmark was administered as a protectorate under figures such as SS general Werner Best, while King Christian X and a cooperative-but-resisting Danish political culture preserved a strong national solidarity. In August 1943 martial law and a planned roundup of Jews prompted Georg Ferdinand Duckwitz, a German diplomat with Danish ties, t...
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- Manhattan Project (1942)
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