Rescue of the Danish Jews
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title:
Rescue of the Danish Jews
text:
The Danish resistance movement, with the assistance of many Danish citizens, managed to evacuate 7,220 of Denmark's 7,800 Jews, plus 686 non-Jewish spouses, by sea to nearby neutral Sweden during the Second World War. The arrest and deportation of Danish Jews was ordered by the German leader Adolf Hitler, but the efforts to save them started earlier due to the plans being leaked on September 28, 1943, by German diplomat Georg Ferdinand Duckwitz. The rescue is considered one of the largest action
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Event during World War 2
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rescue_of_the_Danish_Jews
date created:
2004-06-27T20:32:53Z
date modified:
2024-08-30T15:24:00Z
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