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Hitler's Savage Canary - A History of the Danish Resistance in World War II (Paperback)
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Hitler's Savage Canary - A History of the Danish Resistance in World War II (Paperback)
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Discovery Miles 4 250
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Adolf Hitler stated that after occupation Denmark would turn into a
model protectorate'. Winston Churchill, meanwhile, maintained that
the small country of (then) four million people would become the
sadistic murderer's canary'. In the end, neither was right. Though
their resistance organisation was slower to develop effective
tactics on a wide scale than in some other occupied countries, with
initially no help from the Allies the Danes set up a resistance
movement that proved to be a constant irritation to the Axis
forces. In time the Danish Resistance, the Modstandsbev gelsen, was
not a meek canary, but a dangerous and courageous bird of prey that
refused to be caged. The scale of the resistance to the Nazis in
Denmark is without equal: twenty-six million issues of illegal
newspapers had been published by 1945; radio guides for Allied
aircraft had been set up on the coasts; boat services ran between
Sweden, Denmark and Britain; a news bureau provided a stream of
inside information to the Allies; German ships were unable to move
out of the ports; and troops were frustrated by the sabotage of
railways and air bases. Incredibly, almost the entire Jewish
population, some 7,000 people, was shipped to safety in Sweden. The
selfless courage shown by the Danes, when collaboration would have
been an easy option, is astonishing. This story of heroism and
daring by a small country is a thrilling read, and provides a real
insight to the mindset of a people under occupation.
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