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terhandlung der öffentlichen Sicherheit und Ordnung und müssen daher für die Dauer der
Anwesenheit der deutsche Truppen in Dänemark in Verwahrung genommen Werden“ 134 .
The German demand was „met“ so complete, that even the seized archives of the
Danish émigré organizations were handed over to the Germans, who alas, “did not
return them” 135 . Also 61 British and French citizens were deported to Germany on
May, 17th. 1940 136 . Co-operation from the Danish police with the German police began
even before the war in the International Criminal Police Commission 137 .
Export of Danish produced weapons and food to Germany and her allies took place
during the whole war. Also some Danish companies worked inside Germany and in
Poland for the Nazi military using Russian and Polish concentration camps prisoners.
Younger Danish historians experienced during their research in this matter that those
companies had destroyed their files from the years of the occupation 138 .
One of the first Danish resistance actions
were the modern play of Aristophanes:
Lysistrata renamed Dyveke, played at the
Royal Theatre in Copenhagen from May
1940. The play of Aristophanes Lysistrata
was first translated and published in
Danish in 1969.
On October 12, 1935, the fascist Germany
had forbidden Negro Music, Unerwünschte
Musik: jazz. Therefore jazz became a
popular form of protest during the
occupation, which later became known as
the golden age of Danish jazz.
On the morning of August 29, 1943 the
Germans banned the Danish State Radio
from playing American and British music
and the following day even Swedish music
was banned: “No more Pan-Scandinavianism
in the Danish Radio, no zoot suiting,
no Jews, and no parlour bolshevism” 139 .
134 Ibid. p. 187.
135 Ibid. p. 189.
136 Ibid. p. 33.
137 Den Internationale Kriminalpolitikommission. Koch, Henning: Demokrati slå til! Statslig nødret,
ordenspoliti og frihedsrettigheder 1932-1945. 1994, p. 232. See also: Madsen, Carl: Flygtning 33 :
Strejflys over Hitlers Danmark, 1974 pp. 78-80.
138 Lov nr. 246 om Handel med samt Tilvirkning og Besiddelse af Vaaben m.m. af 10. maj 1940. In:
Besættelsestidens Fakta, 1945. Vol. 1 pp. 9-11. The Danish Arms producing companies and arms export
during World War two are documented in the Danish Peace Academy: Dansk våbeneksport til Tyskland
under besættelsen. http://www.fredsakademiet.dk/tid/1900/1940/tid9405.htm#50100
139 Frit Danmarks Hvidbog Vol. 2, p. 1407.