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To: J_F_Shepard who wrote (582435)	8/25/2010 8:16:35 AM
From: Taro	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1578882

The pictures in there are predominantly from the South Jutland Border to Germany. Not a shot was fired in Copenhagen and only a few were fired at the land border and due to bad communication only. The officer in command at that border was Valdemar Gudme 'Onkel Valde' called, my step father's uncle and a highly decorated veteran from WW I. Based on the situation and the miserable resources at hand compared to the German 'Blitz Kriegers' he relived his troops and told them to get out of the way. After the War he was stripped of his ranks and got the boot from the army. What you see in that little 'Frihedsmuséet' down at the end of Amaliegade/Bredgade is a highly idealized depiction of the real situation. Of course a small minority was actively fighting against the Germans and some of those got caught and certainly also executed, but the fact remains, that at any time during WW II more Danes volonteered to join the German troop contigent 'Freikorps Danmark' (albeit fighting the Russian Communists at the East Front) than were fighting the Germans at home. There is a lot more to be said about the whole thing incl. the full cooperation of the war cabinet but heroically excluding the King Christian X, who openly demonstrated his solidarity with the Jews, when riding through the city with a large David Star fixed to his breast when that duty was imposed by law on the Danish Jews. I don't think you can teach me much about Denmark, my friend. /Taro