Terp, Holger: Danish Peace History - Det danske Fredsakademi

other surviving books were Ernst Friedrich‘s: “Krieg dem Kriege” from 1925 (later
reprinted in Germany) and Mathilde Vaerting‘s “Die Struktur des friedlichen
Menschen” from 1933. Around 100,000 Jewish books at the Royal Library were hidden
from the Germans 147 .
The Danish peace groups continued to publish their magazines and other publications
during the occupation. In 1941 the young poet Halfdan Rasmussen (1915-2002)
published his first pacific poems in the collection “Soldat eller Menneske” / Soldier or
Human. In the spring of 1943 the Christian Peace Union published in their magazine
the Peace Prayer attributed to St. Francis; but according to the French professor
Christian Renoux, this poem was written and published during World War One.
The important Danish aid work during
and after World War Two began with the
aid to Norway founded in 1940 at
Copenhagen by the Norwegian Ladies
Committee 148 . During the war the aid
work grew in size and importance. The
peace groups organised nation-wide
collections of money and clothes and
training camps for volunteer skilled
workers.
Even new peace groups like The Youths
Peace Society 149 and the most important
aid and relief organization the Peace
Friends Relief Work 150 were established
the latter in January 1944. The Peace
Friends Relief Work was supported by all
the Danish peace groups, the Quakers
and Kirkeligt Verdensforbund.
At the end of World War II hundreds of
volunteers Danish craftsmen organised
by the Peace Friends Relief Work
supported by the governments Liaison
Committee Concerning International Aid
Work established in September 1944; the
Danish Red Cross and Save the
Children 151 were ready to begin aid- and
reconstruction work in Belgium, France,
the Netherlands, Norway, Finland and
147 Haxen, Ulf.: Det lille mirakel. Gyldendal 2003.
148 Boken om danskehjelpen. Oslo, 1947.The Norwegian aid collecting in Denmark closed down at the
end of 1945.