The Danes agreed to supply richĪgricultural produce and other goods to the Germans.īy the following year, however, a Danish resistance Who fled to escape the Germans and establish resistance movements in England. Remained in Denmark, unlike his fellow monarchs in Norway and the Netherlands Were also aware of the need to adjust to living in a German-dominated Europe.ĭanes and Germans quickly worked out the terms of occupation. On April 9, 1940, Germany attacked Denmark. Before the war, Denmark's small Jewish population was well History of taking in immigrants from countries such as Germany, Holland, Sweden,Īnd Poland. Idyllic country of 4 million people, with a
Solution: Auschwitz Bergen-Belsen Belzec Sobibor Treblinka Inaccurate Nazi estimate of the number of Jews in Denmark. Against the entry for Denmark is the figure 5,600-the Documents from thatĬonference are still in existence today. Rule Europe in an ethnically "pure" German Empire.īerlin 20 January 1942, details of the mass murder plans were discussed. The Nazi goal was to exterminate the Jews and Million Jews in the countries of German-occupied Europe. In 1941, in the midst of World War II, the Germansīegan their "Final Solution" for the Jews. Jews were able to escape the clutches of the Nazis and find refuge in neutral Rallied round to save their fellow citizens, and almost all of the country's Risking their own lives, the Danes quickly
Danish citizens spontaneously make their own decision: it's That all 7,500 Danish Jews are about to be rounded up and deported to GermanĬoncentration camps. World War II: In 1943, in German-occupied Denmark, the Danish people find out Nobility of the human soul on a night when the Danes got truly fed up with In World War II, one such instance was the Danish Jews’Įscape from Hitler’s genocidal plan to eradicate all Jews from Europe. Amidst the madness of war, there are moments of hopeĪnd illumination. The Holocaust of WW2 is certain to be remembered as humanity's blackest chapter of the century - between 19, German dictator Adolf Hitler and his Nazis murdered some 6 million