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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 34. Chapters: Danish resistance members, Occupation of Denmark, Rescue of the Danish Jews, Danish resistance movement, Liselund, Peter Freuchen, Rescue of Stutthof victims in Denmark, Anders Lassen, Georg Schafer, Knud Pedersen, Danish Freedom Council, Deportation of the Danish police, Jens Quistgaard, Georg Quistgaard, Bent Faurschou-Hviid, Three Hearts and Three Lions, John Christmas Moller, Holger Danske, Jorgen Haagen Schmith, Hvidsten group, Poul Andersen, Kim Malthe-Bruun, Churchill Club, Eli Fischer-Jorgensen, Arne Sejr, Flemming Muus, BOPA, Mogens Fog, Erling Foss, Carsten Hoeg, Jorgen Kieler, Frode Jakobsen, Arne Sorensen, Marius Fiil, Alma Allen. Excerpt: Nazi Germany's occupation of Denmark began with Operation Weserubung 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 German authorities dissolved the government following a wave of strikes and sabotage. 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. The occupation of Denmark was initially not an important objective for the German government. The decision to occupy its small northern neighbor was taken to facilitate a planned invasion of the strategically more important Norway, and as a precaution against the expected British...