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Approximately 6,000 Danes were sent to concentration camps during World War II, [48] of whom about 600 (10%) died. In comparison with other countries this is a relatively low mortality rate in the concentration camps. After the war, 40,000 people were arrested on suspicion of collaboration.
The Real History of World War II: A New Look at the Past. Sterling Publishing Company, Inc. ISBN 9781402740909. Dildy, Douglas C. (2007). Denmark and Norway 1940: Hitler's boldest operation. London: Osprey Publishing Ltd. ISBN 978-1-84603-117-5. Holbraad, Carsten (2017). Danish Reactions to German Occupation. London: UCL Press. ISBN 9781911307495.
The Danish resistance movements (Danish: Den danske modstandsbevægelse) were an underground insurgency to resist the German occupation of Denmark during World War II. Due to the initially lenient arrangements, in which the Nazi occupation authority allowed the democratic government to stay in power, the resistance movement was slower to ...
Operation Carthage, on 21 March 1945, was a British air raid on Copenhagen, Denmark during the Second World War which caused significant collateral damage. The target of the raid was the Shellhus, used as Gestapo headquarters in the city centre. It was used for the storage of dossiers and the torture of Danish citizens during interrogations.
The resistance group Holger Danske was founded in Denmark during World War II. It was named after Holger Danske, a heroic figure who "sleeps until Denmark is in danger". [1] Established in April 1943, its leaders included Josef Søndergaard, its "central figure", [2] Jens Lillelund, and brothers Jorgen and Mogens Staffeldt. [3]
The British occupation of the Faroe Islands during the Second World War, also known as Operation Valentine, was implemented immediately following Operation Weserübung, the German invasion of metropolitan Denmark and Norway. It was a small component of the roles of Nordic countries in the war. [1]
The Danish Brigade in Sweden (Danish: Den Danske Brigade i Sverige) or in short, the Danish Brigade (Den Danske Brigade/DDB) (also referred to as Danforce) was a military unit made up of Danish refugees during World War II. Trained and supplied by Sweden, the brigade was created to help liberate Denmark. Ultimately it was only deployed on the ...
29 August – The Danish government resigns, leading to direct administration of Denmark by German authority. [ 3 ] 28 September – Georg Ferdinand Duckwitz , a German diplomat, after secretly making sure Sweden would receive Jewish refugees, leaks word of the German plans for the arrest and deportation of the some 8,000 Danish Jews to Hans ...