“Danish resistance didn’t arrive all at once. Like what we are witnessing now in the United States, it unfolded gradually—slow, then fast, then full tilt—driven by flash points that demanded escalation and deepened solidarity…
The Danish Commandments set the stage for mass defiance. The Danes were encouraged to do bad work for the Germans, to destroy what mattered to the occupiers, and to refuse to support Nazi collaborators…
An occupying Nazi officer—his conscience pierced by the moral clarity surrounding him—leaked the plan. Danes acted swiftly. In a coordinated rescue, they spirited over 99 percent of Danish Jews to safety in Sweden, which welcomed them and allowed them to work…
“Denmark is the only case we know of in which the Nazis met with open native resistance, and the result seems to have been that those exposed to it changed their minds.…Their ‘toughness’ had melted like butter in the sun.” ~ Hannah Arendt
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https://www.thenation.com/article/activism/danish-resistance/