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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. With no help initially from the Allies, the Danes set up a resistance movement that proved to be a constant irritation to the occupation forces 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 the coasts; regular boat services ran between Sweden, Denmark and Britain; a news bureau provided a stream of inside information to the Allies; German ships were unable to move out of the ports; and troops were constantly frustrated by the sabotage of railways and air bases. Incredibly, almost the entire...
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