Terp, Holger: Danish Peace History - Det danske Fredsakademi

transportation 141 . Also the Danish chapters of WRI and the Women’s International
League for Peace and Freedom were active in the rescue of the Jews. However, not all
the Jews were saved. Four hundred eighty-one Danish Jews ended in the
concentration camp Theresienstadt.
After the escape of the Jews many of the doctors and students became active in the
militant resistance movement.
In 1963 the Danish-American entertainer Victor Borge and the New York attorney
Richard Netter founded Thanks to Scandinavia to commemorate the courage and
decency of people who rescued Jews during WW 2 142 .
Members of the Other Germany, like Hilltgunt Zassenhaus (born 1916), tried to help
the Danish and Norwegian prisoners in Germany during World War II 143 . Her
American autobiography was published in Danish in 1974.
The émigré Walther A. Berendsohn, the son of a Jew, escaped to Sweden in a small
boat together with two German deserters from Luxemburg and a Danish saboteur 144 .
On October 22, 1942 the German soldier Alfred Andersch deserted in Germany and
sailed to Denmark 145 .
Denmark was in the unique situation that it was the only German occupied country,
where organised peace work could continue without German persecution and
imprisonment of pacifists. Thus Denmark became a safe heaven for German peace
literature during World War Two, because of close contacts between Danish and
German pacifists.
A rare copy of Emil Flusser’s “Krieg als Krankheit” from 1932 survived the German
fascists book burnings of May 10 th . 1933 and November 1938 in Denmark 146 . Among
141 Den hvide Brigade: Danske Lægers Modstand / editor Aage Svendstorp, 1946.
Flugten Til Sverige: Aktionen mod de danske jøder oktober 1943 / Rasmus Kreth ; Michael Mogensen.
Gyldendal, 1995. - 178 pp. - ISBN 87-00-20406-4
http://www.dchf.dk/pdf_filer/flugt%20DOC.pdf
Hong, Nathaniel: Sparks of Resistance: The Illegal Press in German Occupied Denmark April 1940 -
August 1943. Odense University Press, 1996. - XI + 308 pp.
Hong has been investigating, for the first time, Statsadvokaturen for særlige Anliggenders, indexing of
the illegal press. One of Hong's findings was that the Danish Communists had nearly monopoly on the
illegal press from October 1941 with the exception of Frit Danmark. Another of his findings was that by
February 1943, the illegal press geographically covered the whole of Denmark, still with the illegal
Communistic press as the dominating.
Hong is an American historian and media researcher; publisher during the Vietnam War.
142 http.//www.thankstoscandinavia.org
143 Zassenhaus, Hiltgunt: Walls.
144 Steffensen, Steffen: Professor Walther A. Berendsohn. In: På flugt fra nazismen: Tysksprogede
emigranter i Danmark, 1987, p. 257.
145 Haase, Norbert: Deutsche Deserteure. - Berlin : Rotbuch Verlag, 1978. pp. 29-32.
146 Dungen, Peter van den: Dr. Emil Flusser: Forgotten Precursor of the Medical Peace Movement. In:
Medicine, Conflict and Survival, 1996:2 pp. 90-106.