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For almost three and a half
ross the street is wrong. years, from the day of Den-
mark's occupation by Nazi-
Germany on April 9, 1940,
the nearly 10,000 Danish
Jews and Jewish refugees
were not molested. The
Danes, while collaborating
with the Germans in the so-
called policy of negotiation,
simultaneously extended full

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political, social, juridical, and ment was developed into an.
personal protection to the organized action by the Dan-
Jews and their property. The ish resistance movement. The
behavior of the Danish au- cost of the transfer amounted
thorities and the population to about 12,000,000 Danish
was so steadfast that the Ger- crowns, of which the Jews
mans did not think if profit- themselves paid approxi-
able to injure the Danish mately 6,500,000 to 7,000,000.
Jewish population, the En- The rest was provided out of
cyclopedia Judaica states.
private and public Danish
Things changed when Ger- contributions.
many, on Aug. 28, 1943, abol-
During the night of the per-
ished t h e Danish-German
agreement. In September 1943 secution ,(Oct. 1-2, 1943)
and following it, less than
martial law was declared.
500
Jews were seized by the
The representative of the
Germans. They were sent to
German Reich, the Nazi,
Theresienstadt and remained
Werner Best, advocated us-
ing this opportunity to deport there until the spring of 1945,
when they too were brought
the Jews. The attache for
to Sweden by the action of
shipping affairs, F. G. Duk-
witz, who maintained good the Swedish Red Cross head-
relations with leading Danish ed by Count Bernadotte. Upon
Democrats, informed them their return from Sweden to
of the impending danger for Denmark at the end of the
the Jews. His warning was war, most of the Jews found
quickly spread by Danish their property in tact, the
-citizens, organizations and by Encyclopedia Judaica says.
It may be estimated that
the Jews themselves, and
overnight a rescue organiza- approximately 120 people
tion sprung up that helped perished because of the per-
6200 Jews and about 700 non- secution: about 50 in There-
Jewish relatives escape to sienstadt and a few more in
Sweden in less than three other camps. Close to the,
weeks. Danish captains and same number committed
fishermen carried out this suicide or were drowned on
operation. What began as a their way to Sweden. Less
spontaneous popular move- than 2 per cent of the Jewish
populatiOn of Denmark
perished.
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PARIS—A group of teach- rest of Europe should have
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here during the last week in tude toward Jews and the
June. The teachers visited humane love of the Dane for
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