Had the Allies landed on the Western coast of Denmark on D-Day, the Nazis would have been ready. The German forces had built up the defensive Atlantic Wall, which stretched along the European coast ...

Straede is Professor Emeritus of Contemporary History at the University of Southern Denmark in Odense, specializing in Holocaust studies, and the Consulting Historian for the Courage to Act: Rescue in ...

Why did the Holocaust fail so spectacularly in Denmark while it succeeded in so many European countries? The peculiarities of the German occupation of Denmark may provide a clue. Denmark surrendered ...

Last time hostile armies lay in Oslo was in 1716; last time invaders attacked Copenhagen was in 1807. Last week these old capitals surveyed the results of a fortnight’s German occupation, arrived at ...

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IN a paper on this subject read before the Danish Medical Society on November 5, 1940 (Nordisk Med., 9, 869; 1941), Dr. Johannes Clemmesen, of Copenhagen, maintains that cancer research has lost ...