Great people those Danes.
Yes they were:
"4 - King Christian X of Denmark wore a Jewish Star badge to protest German orders that Danish Jews wear such badges.
This is one of the most enduring Holocaust myths, popularized in Leon Uris’ Exodus, Lois Lowry’s Number the Stars and Bjarne Reuter's The Boys from St. Petri. Some also add that the king urged all Danish non-Jews to do so, too, or that they donned them in admiration of his gesture. This never happened, despite the stories about the king’s open support of his Jewish subjects that circulated throughout Europe, one of which has him threatening to wear a badge if such an order were given. However, the Germans never required Danish Jews to wear badges, possibly because they realized how much resistance this would arouse, intensifying the Danes’ solidarity and rejection of Nazi thinking. Thus, through most of the occupation, as a gesture of solidarity with all of his subjects, the king continued his daily horseback rides through Copenhagen, alone unprotected and these became a focus of popular protest as scores of Danes turned out to escort him. Moreover, on the night of October 1-2, 1943, when German police were to begin arresting Danish Jews, non-Jews reacted spontaneously to the threat by alerting the Jews and helping them reach the seashore and cross to Sweden. When the Swedish government announced that it would accept all refugees from Denmark, the Danish resistance joined in, organizing a massive flight, while the king and the heads of the Danish churches protested the deportation. In the course of three weeks, some 7200 Jews and some 700 non-Jewish relatives were taken to Sweden. Of the almost 500 Jews deported to Terezín (Theresienstadt), all but 51 survived, due largely to the Danish government's intercession on their behalf."
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