Danish resistance movement
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The Danish resistance movements were an underground insurgency to resist the German occupation of Denmark during World War II. Due to the initially lenient arrangements, which allowed the democratic g
Members of the resistance movement in fight with German soldiers Flakhaven in Odense 5th of May 1945
København, 1945
M1917 Enfield used by a resistance group in Haslev.
Railway shop workers in Frederiksværk built this armored car for offensive use by the Danish resistance. It was employed against Danish Nazis, known as the Lorenzen group, entrenched in the plantation of Asserbo in North Zealand. May 5, 1945
Bent Faurschou Hviid
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Bent Faurschou Hviid was a member of the Danish resistance group Holger Danske during World War II. He was quickly named "Flammen", for his red hair. In 1951, he and his Resistance partner Jørgen Haag
Danish resistance movement
…veterans of the resistance movement, and covered the sometimes contingent, improvised nature of some of the actions. It suggested that some of the noted Bent Faurschou-Hviid (Flammen)'s executions may have been mistakenly directed by a double agent. Knudsen's work was adapted as a two-hour documentary film, With the Right…
Bent Faurschou Hviid in 1944
The memorial of Faurschou Hviid. The inscription translated reads "IN MEMORY OF THE FREEDOM FIGHTER 'FLAMMEN' BENDT FAURSCHOU-HVIID BORN 7-1 1921 DIED 18-10 1944 THE BEST MUST DIE".