HIS338H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Westerbork Transit Camp, History Of The Jews In Denmark, National Socialist Movement In The Netherlands
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Benevolent occupation and mean to be of likeminded people coming together, Danish government was to keep governing the population but germany governing foreign operations. Thought that this small population would also not be difficult to convince. But germany starts to loose and danes start to be convinced that they could lose, so they start to demonstrate more resistance to the occupation. Danish police refused to cooperate, and poplar protest began immediately, from churches, danish oriented family, and danish resistance. Danish citizens organized a partly coordinated and partly spontaneous resue operation: helped them move to hiding places then to coast and then fishermen farrie them to sweden who was neutral. The operation expanded to include government and police participation. Over period of month 7200 jews traveled safely to sweden which accepted them, that factors in that the neighboring country took them in: germany seized 5000 jews, dames demanded whereabouts of citizens and.
