Hitler's Savage Canary: A History of the Danish Resistance in World War II Lampe David
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…
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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
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