After class, a few friends and I venteered to to visit the Danish Resistance Museum. I was surprised at how much I had not known of Scandinavian history.
The Danish Resistance Movement was an underground insurgency movement to resist the German occupation of Denmark during WWII. By1943, many Danes were involved in underground activities ranging from producing illegal publications to spying to violent sabotage. In 1943, the movement scored a great success in rescuing all but 500 of Denmark's Jewish population of 7,000-8,000 from being sent to the concentration camps by helping them into neutral Sweden.
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