Munter, Eric (Oral history)

Danish student member of Danish Resistance in Denmark, Sweden and Germany, 1940-1945

REEL 1 Background in Odense, 1920-1939: family; education; experiences on holiday in Germany and France, 1939; reaction of Danes to outbreak of Second World War, 9/1939. Recollections of period as member of Danish Resistance in Denmark, 1940-1944: start of German invasion of Denmark, 9/4/1940; patriotic protest using headwear by students; start of Special Operations Executive operations in Denmark, 1941; his role in circulation of illegal newspapers; hiding of Special Operations Executive agents in private homes. REEL 2 Continue: his British girlfriend; upsurge of resistance in Denmark, summer 1943; start of his training as saboteur; his role in blowing up of power station at Funen, 1943; failure to blow up power lines; his work helping Jews to escape to Sweden, autumn 1943; smuggling British girls to Sweden, late 1943; clandestine post between Denmark and Sweden; work on reception committee for Special Operations Executive supplies in Zealand, 1944; arrival of Flemming Muus. REEL 3 Continues: story of arrest by Gestapo of friend in the Resistance; method of conducting further sabotage in Zealand, 1944; sabotage attack on factory in Copenhagen, 9/1944; story of saboteur who was arrested; mass sabotage attack on Copenhagen factory, 9/1944. REEL 4 Continues: how Gestapo pressure drove him underground from 10/1944; orders from Resistance to go to Sweden. Aspects of period with Danish Resistance in Sweden, 10/1944-4/1945: his escape to Malmo, 12/10/1944; his interrogation at British Embassy in Stockholm, 10/1944; British proposition that he go to Germany, 10/1944; training in unarmed combat, late 1944; reasons for delay in returning to Denmark. Recollections of operations with Danish Resistance in Denmark and Germany, 1945: return to Jutland, 4/1945; journey to south Jutland in attempt to cross into Germany, 4/1945. REEL 5 Continues: reunion with his brother in Odense, 4/1945; his brother's experiences between 10/1944-4/1945; crossing into Schleswig-Holstein, 4/1945; sabotage work in Schleswig Holstein, 4/1945-5/1945; journey southwards to Kiel, 5/1945; contact with British troops, 5/1945.