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Danish member of Danish Resistance in Denmark, Sweden and Germany, 1940-1945
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REEL 1 Background in Odense, Denmark, 1920-1939: family; education; experiences on holiday in Germany and France, 1939; reaction of Danes to outbreak of Second World War, 3/9/1939. 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; role in circulation of illegal newspapers; hiding of Special Operations Executive agents in private homes.
REEL 2 Continue: British girlfriend Beatrice Brockenhuus-Schack; upsurge of resistance in Denmark, summer 1943; start of training as saboteur; role in blowing up of power station on Funen, 1943; failure to blow up power lines; work aiding Jewish civilians to escape to Sweden, autumn 1943; smuggling British girls including Beatrice Brockenhuus-Schack to Sweden, 10/1943; 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, 10/1944; orders from Danish Resistance to go to Sweden. Aspects of period with Danish Resistance in Sweden, 10/1944-4/1945: escape to Malmö, 12/10/1944; interrogation at British Embassy in Stockholm, 10/1944; British proposition that he become saboteur in Germany, 10/1944; training in unarmed combat, 11/1944-12/1944; reasons for delay in returning to Denmark. Recollections of operations with Danish Resistance in Denmark and Germany, 1945: return to Jutland, Denmark, 4/1945; journey to southern Jutland, Denmark in attempt to cross into Germany, 4/1945.
REEL 5 Continues: reunion with his brother in Odense, Denmark, 4/1945; brother's experiences between 10/1944-4/1945; crossing into Schleswig-Holstein, Germany, 4/1945; sabotage work in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany, 4/1945-5/1945; journey southwards towards Kiel, Germany, 5/1945; contact with British Army troops, 5/1945.