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2023-09-28 80 Years Ago Denmark Miraculously Saved 8,000 Jews From Nazi Murder Human history is all-too-full of ghastly acts of cruelty and torment. They are our ultimate downfall. But 80 years ago, the people of Denmark—-often a great personal risk—-saved some 8,000 Jewish Danes from occupying Nazi murderers. On October 1– 1943’s Jewish New Year– Denmark’s King and its underground resistance helped mobilize the nation to ferry nearly all resident Jews to safety in Sweden.
The story is complex, but among the most moving and powerful in the annals of our species. Hitler’s Wehrmacht had occupied Denmark in 1940. Recognizing the Germans’ overpowering might and love of slaughter, the Danes watched the Nazis march into their country with little violent resistance. Conversely, Hitler desperately needed Danish agricultural supplies. The result was an uneasy coexistence. Alone amongst the countries he occupied, Der Fuhrer abstained from slaughtering en masse the country’s Jews, who were generally well integrated into Denmark’s social mainstream.
But after three years, the Danes had enough of their goose-stepping occupiers. Resistance escalated. Hitler lost patience. So he decided to begin shipping the country’s Jews to death camps. https://freepress.org/article/80-years-ago-denmark-miraculously-saved-8000-jews-nazi-murder
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