Number the Stars Background Information
... Number the Stars Background Information World War II World War II was fought between the Axis Powers and the Allied Powers. Most of the countries in the world were involved in some way. It was the deadliest war in all of human history with around 70 million people killed. The Axis forces: Germany, J ...
... Number the Stars Background Information World War II World War II was fought between the Axis Powers and the Allied Powers. Most of the countries in the world were involved in some way. It was the deadliest war in all of human history with around 70 million people killed. The Axis forces: Germany, J ...
CommonLit | Danish Resistance During the Holocaust
... destruction of World War I, Denmark immediately resisted the invasion (as best as they could, since Germany far outnumbered them). Germany was a country that had broken a “we won’t mess with you” treaty— a country that had bullied other countries and their citizens, and had even used its military to ...
... destruction of World War I, Denmark immediately resisted the invasion (as best as they could, since Germany far outnumbered them). Germany was a country that had broken a “we won’t mess with you” treaty— a country that had bullied other countries and their citizens, and had even used its military to ...
CommonLit | Danish Resistance During the Holocaust
... destruction of World War I, Denmark immediately resisted the invasion (as best as they could, since Germany far outnumbered them). Germany was a country that had broken a “we won’t mess with you” treaty— a country that had bullied other countries and their citizens, and had even used its military to ...
... destruction of World War I, Denmark immediately resisted the invasion (as best as they could, since Germany far outnumbered them). Germany was a country that had broken a “we won’t mess with you” treaty— a country that had bullied other countries and their citizens, and had even used its military to ...
Denmark in World War II
During much of World War II, Denmark was occupied by Nazi Germany. The occupation began with Operation Weserübung on 9 April 1940, and lasted until German forces withdrew at the end of World War II following their surrender to the Allies on 5 May 1945. Contrary to the situation in other countries under German occupation, most Danish institutions continued to function relatively normally until 1943. Both the Danish government and king remained in the country in an uneasy relationship between a democratic and a totalitarian system until the Danish government stepped down in a protest of the German demands to institute the death penalty for sabotage.Just over 3,000 Danes died as a direct result of the occupation. (A further 4,000 Danish volunteers died fighting in the German army on the Eastern Front while 1,072 merchant sailors died in Allied service). Overall this represents a very low mortality rate (approximately 0.08% of population) when compared to other occupied countries and most belligerent countries. (See: World War II casualties).An effective resistance movement developed by the end of the war, and most Danish Jews were rescued in 1943 when German authorities ordered their internment as part of the Holocaust.In 2003, in a speech for the 60th anniversary of the end of the 1940–43 collaborationist government, Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen said that Denmark's cooperation with Nazis was ""morally unjustifiable"", which was the first public condemnation of the World War II era Danish leadership by a Danish leader.