What was the Danish Resistance Movement?
Q: What was the Danish Resistance Movement?
A: The Danish Resistance Movement was an underground movement organized to resist the Nazi German occupation of Denmark during World War II.
Q: Why did the resistance movement take longer to develop effective tactics?
A: Due to the initially lenient arrangements, in which the Nazi occupation authority allowed the democratic government to stay in power, the resistance movement was slower to develop effective tactics on a wide scale than in some other countries.
Q: What kinds of underground activities were Danes involved in during the war?
A: By 1943, many Danes were involved in underground activities, ranging from producing illegal publications to spying and sabotage.
Q: What were some major resistance groups in Copenhagen?
A: Major groups included the communist BOPA (Danish: Borgerlige Partisaner, Civil Partisans) and Holger Danske, both based in Copenhagen.
Q: How many Danish Nazis, informers, and collaborators were killed by resistance agents until 1944?
A: Resistance agents killed an estimated 400 Danish Nazis, informers, and collaborators until 1944.
Q: Who did the resistance also begin killing after 1944?
A: After 1944, the resistance also killed some German nationals.
Q: How did people view the resistance in the postwar period?
A: In the postwar period, the Resistance was supported by politicians within Denmark, and there was little effort to closely examine the killings. Studies were made in the late 20th and early 21st centuries, and people learned that there was sometimes improvised and contingent decision making about the targets, with some morally ambiguous choices.
