Denmark In WW2

Denmark During World War 2

(Picture: During the German Occupation, Danish King Christian X became a strong symbol of national independence. This picture was taken on the King's Birthday in 1940.)

From September 1, 1939 until April 9, 1940 Denmark was Neutral during World War 2.

That changed when on April 9, 1940 Nazi Germany invaded Denmark.

The Invasion was called Operation Weserübung (German: Unternehmen Weserübung or in English: Operation Weser Exercise.)

Nazi Germany wanted to occupy Norway to prevent the British from occupying it and they had to go through Denmark to get to Norway.

After less than 6 hours of fighting in which 39 Danish Soldiers died the Danish Prime Minister Thorvald Stauning surrendered Denmark to the Germans.

The German Occupation (Danish: Besættelsen) of Denmark began.

Unlike his Brother King Haakon VII of Norway, Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands, King George II of Greece, Grand Duchess Charlotte of Luxembourg, King Peter II of Yugoslavia and President Władysław Raczkiewicz of Poland, all of whom went into Exile during the Nazi Occupation of their Countries King Christian X remained in Denmark and on the Throne during the German Occupation of Denmark.

The Germans considered the Danes “Aryans” like themselves and so gave the Danes more control over Domestic Policies then they did anywhere else they Occupied.

Denmark Collaborated with the Nazis from April 9, 1940 until August 23, 1943 under a Policy known as Cooperation (Danish: samarbejdspolitikken.)

Thorvald Stauning remained the Danish Prime Minister from April 9, 1940 until his death on May 3, 1942.

Vilhelm Buhl then became the Danish Prime Minister from May 4, 1942 until November 2, 1942.

Erik Scavenius was the Danish Prime Minister from November 9, 1942 until August 29, 1943.

The Danish Parliament, Courts, Police and Civil Administration continued to operate, but under German Orders.

Danish Resistance Groups from April 1940 until August 1943 were mostly Non-Violent towards the German Occupation Forces focusing on spying and printing Illegal newspapers.

After the German Occupation of Denmark the British Occupied the Danish Faroe Islands (on April 13, 1940 until May 1945.)

The British and Canadians Occupied Danish Iceland (on May 10, 1940) and the Americans Occupied Iceland in July 1941until May 1945.

Iceland became a Republic in 1944 and left the Kingdom of Denmark.

The Americans Occupied Danish Greenland from December 11, 1941 until May 1945.

2,000 Danes joined the Volunteers of Free Corps Denmark (Danish: Frikorps Danmark, German: Freikorps „Danmark“) part of the Waffen-SS.

39,000 Danes joined The National Socialist Workers' Party of Denmark (Danish: Danmarks Nationalsocialistiske Arbejderparti; DNSAP) the Danish Equivalent to the German Nazi Party.

The Danish Government refused to discriminate against its Jewish Citizens (there were 8,000 Jews in Denmark at the time) from April 1940 until August 1943.

On June 21, 1941 (when Nazi Germany invaded its Former Ally the Soviet Union) Denmark arrested 246 Danish Communists including 3 Members of the Danish Parliament.

On August 22, 1941 the Danish Parliament created the “Communist Law” (Danish: Kommunistloven) and banned the Communist Party.

In October 1942, Hitler transmitted a long, flattering Birthday Telegram to King Christian.

The King replied with a simple "Spreche Meinen besten Dank aus. Chr. Rex" ("Giving my best thanks. King Christian") sending the Führer into a state of rage at this deliberate slight, and seriously damaging Danish Relations with Germany. Hitler immediately recalled his Ambassador and expelled the Danish Ambassador from Germany.

It was known as the Telegram Crisis (Danish: Telegramkrisen or German: Telegrammkrise.)

After the German Defeat at Stalingrad in the USSR in February 1943 Danish Resistance against the Germans began to pick-up.

In March 1943 the Germans allowed the Danes to hold a General Election where Voter Turnout was 89.5% (the highest of any Parliamentary Election) with 94% of the Votes for Democratic Parties (2.1% Voted for the National Socialist Workers' Party of Denmark.)

After the Election growing Civil Disobedience and Strikes were held throughout Denmark.

The German Occupation Forces declared Martial Law in Denmark on August 29, 1943.

The Danish Parliament and the Danish Prime Minister were forbidden to meet.

The Germans now controlled every aspect of life throughout Occupied Denmark.

Danish Resistance went from being Non-Violent to Violent against the German Occupation Forces from August 1943 until May 1945.

In September 1943 German Diplomat Georg Ferdinand Duckwitz who worked at the German Embassy in Copenhagen learned that the Gestapo were going to arrest and deport all 8,000 Jews in Denmark on October 1, 1943.

He flew to Stockholm, Sweden (which was Neutral during World War 2) and received permission from the Swedish Prime Minister Per Albin Hansson to allow the Danish Jews entry into Sweden.

On September 28, 1943 Duckwitz informed the Head of the Jewish Community in Denmark, C. B. Henriques, and the Acting Chief Rabbi, Marcus Melchior, about the planned Deportation.

On September 29, 1943 (the day before Rosh Hashannah or Jewish New Year’s) the Church of Denmark (Danish: Folkekirken) issued a Pastoral Letter to all Danish Citizens to help the Jews of Denmark get to safety.

On October 2, 1943 the Swedish Government announced in an Official Statement that Sweden was prepared to accept all Danish Jews (after the Danish Physicist Niels Bohr, whose Mother was Jewish, had fled to Sweden and begged Swedish King Gustaf V to allow the Danish Jews into Seeden.)

7,500 of the Danish Jews went into hiding with the help of the Danish Resistance and Ordinary Danish Citizens.

They were then smuggled on boats over the Øresund Strait from Zealand, Denmark to Sweden (which took around an hour.)

The Danish Fishermen charged on average 1,000 Danish Kroner per Person for the transport, but some charged up to 50,000 Kroner.

The Average Monthly Salary at the time was 500 Danish Korner.

The Danish Resistance paid for half the expense (10 Million Danish Kroner) and the Jews themselves paid the other half (10 Million Danish Kroner.)

Of the 500 Danish Jews who didn’t leave Denmark 464 were arrested by the Germans.

They were sent to the Theresienstadt Concentration Camp in German-Occupied Czechoslovakia (Present Day: the Czech Republic.)

The Danish Red Cross tried to keep track of the Danish Jews in Theresienstadt and even convinced the Germans not to deport them to the Death Camps in German-Occupied Poland.

Of the 464 Danish Jews arrested, 51 died in Theresienstadt.

In April 1945, Folke Bernadotte of the Swedish Red Cross used a Policy called “White Buses” to move 15,000 (8,000 Danish and Norwegian Jews and 7,000 French, Polish, Czech, British and American Jews) from German Concentration Camps (including Theresienstadt) to Sweden.

On September 14, 1944 the Germans arrested 1,960 Danish Policemen for refusing to help the Germans.

8,040 Danish Policemen were able to evade being arrested due to being warned beforehand.

 The 1,960 Policemen who were arrested were deported to the Neuengamme Concentration Camp in Germany then moved to the Buchenwald Concentration Camp in Germany then sent to a Prisoner-Of-War Camp in Mühlberg, German.

131 of these Policemen died during the War.

The British liberated Denmark on May 5,1945.

The easternmost Danish Island of Bornholm was liberated by the Soviets who remained there until April 5, 1946.

380 Danish Resistance Members were killed during the War.

900 Non-Jewish Danish Civilians were killed during the War.

6,000 Non-Jewish Danish Civilians were sent to German Concentration Camps during the War (of whom 600 died.)

Vilhelm Buhl was made the Prime Minister of Denmark again from May 5, 1945 until November 7, 1945.

40,000 Danes were tried for Collaborating with the Germans after the War.

Only 13,500 of those 40,000 where punished in any way after a Trial.

Over 200,000 German Prisoners-Of-War were made to demine the areas of Denmark that the Germans had mined during the War.

Half of them died from the mines.

By the time Nazi Germany was defeated in May 1945 there were 250,000 German Refugees living in Denmark – having fled the Soviets in East Prussia.

The first of these 250,000 Refugees returned to Post-War Allied (British, French, American and Soviet) Occupied Germany in November 1946.

50,000 Danish Women had Sexual Romances with the Germans during the War.

They were called “tyskerpiger” or “Pro-German Girls.”

At least 5,579 “War Babies” (with a German Father and a Danish Mother) were born from 1940-1945.

These “War Babies” were discriminated against by Danish Society after 1945.

On March 21, 1971 Israel’s Yad Vashem made Georg Ferdinand Duckwitz “Righteous Among The Nations.”

On March 21, 1979 Israel’s Yad Vashem made all the Members of the Danish Resistance “Righteous Among the Nations” for their work in saving the 7,500 Jews from Denmark during the War.

Maltese Siege

The Siege of Malta

(A heavily bomb-damaged Kingsway Street in Valletta, Malta. Service personnel and civilians are present clearing up the debris.)

Malta was a British Crown Colony from 1813 until 1964.

Malta is a group of Islands (the Islands of Malta, Comino and Gozo) that are 57 miles from Sicily and 309 miles from Tunisia in the Mediterranean Sea.

On September 3, 1939 Malta automatically declared War on Nazi Germany when the United Kingdom declared War.

In 1939 Malta had a Population of 270,000 People.

Malta was the only Allied Military Base between Gibraltar and Alexandria, Egypt (after the Fall of France in June 1940.)

Malta was an Important Radar Base for the British and the Americans during the War as it could cover all of Italy, all of French Vichy Africa and all of German-Occupied Balkans.

On June 10, 1940 Italy declared War on Malta (technically on the United Kingdom.)

That meant that from June 1940 Malta was sandwiched between Fascist Italy (57 miles away) and French Vichy Tunisia (309 miles away) both Collaborating with and supported by Nazi Germany.

On June 11, 1940 the first Air Raids started on Malta.

For the next 2 years, 5 months, 1 week and 2 days (until November 20, 1942 Malta was the most heavily bombed Territory of World War 2 with regard to size.

The Italians and the Germans regularly bombed Malta over that time period as well as any Allied Ships trying to bring fuel, military supplies and food to the Island.

The goal of the Axis Powers was to starve Malta into surrendering to them.

On April 15, 1942 British King George VI awarded the George Cross to the People of Malta for their Bravery under Attack.

The Malta Convoys were Allied Ships from the United Kingdom and, after December 1941, the United States to bring Military Equipment, Medical Supplies, Fuel and Food to Malta through the dangerous Axis-Controlled Mediterranean.

The Largest Malta Convoy was called Operation Pedestal in August 1942 in which the British and Americans used 4 Aircraft Carriers, 2 Battleships, 7 Light Cruisers, 32 Destroyers, 4 Corvettes, 4 Minesweepers, 11 Submarines, 7 Motor Launches, 14 Merchant Ships, 2 Fleet Oilers, 74 Fighter’s and 28 Torpedo Bombers to bring Essential Supplies and Military Equipment including Oil to the Island.

The Germans and Italians destroyed or sunk: 1 Aircraft Carrier sunk, 2 Light Cruisers sunk,1 Destroyer sunk,9 Merchant Ships sunk ,1 Aircraft Carrier damaged, 2 Light Cruisers damaged, 3 Merchant Ships damaged, 34 Aircraft destroyed and 550 Allied Soldiers and Airmen killed.

Despite the heavy loses Operation Pedestal was a Strategic Victory for the Allies as 29,000 tons of General Cargo, together with Gas, Oil, Kerosene and Diesel Fuel was delivered (and unloaded by Maltese Civilians during a German Air Raid) was enough to give Malta ten weeks' supply of Food and Military Equipment.

If Operation Pedestal had failed Malta would have had to surrender to the Germans and the Italians

There were a total of 3,343 Italian and German Air Raids on Malta during World War 2.

The Maltese spent a total of 2,357 hours (equivalent to 98 days) in Air Raid Shelters.

The Axis dropped 15,000 tons of Bombs on Malta.

The Germans and Italians created Operation Herkules (German: Unternehmen Herkules; Italian: Operazione C3) to invade and occupy Malta.

1,581 Maltese Civilians were killed.

3,780 Maltese Civilians were wounded.

50,000 Maltese Civilians were made homeless.

7,500 Allied (British, Maltese, South African, Canadian, Australian and New Zealander) Soldiers were killed defending Malta.

111 Churches and 50 Hospitals were destroyed.

The Siege of Malta was only lifted after the Germans lost the November 1942 the Second Battle of El Alamein in Egypt and the Allies (Americans and British) landed Forces in Vichy French Morocco and Vichy French Algeria in Operation Torch also in November 1942.

In 1943 the Americans and British planned the Invasion of Sicily from Malta.

Note 1: The George Cross, awarded by the British King George VI in 1942 remained on the Maltese Flag even when it became an Independent Country in 1964 (with Elizabeth II being the Queen of Malta from 1964-1974) and when Malta became a Republic in 1974.

Note 2: I learned all about Malta and its Role in World War 2 when I was researching to give a presentation to my Middle School Class in Darmstadt, Germany when I was 14 years old. We were deciding where to go for Spring Break and everyone liked my presentation and voted to go to Malta so we did.

Liviu Librescu

Liviu Librescu

Liviu Librescu was born August 18, 1930 in Ploiești, Kingdom of Romania (Present-Day: Romania.)

His Father, Izidor Librescu, was a Lawyer.

On August 8, 1940 Romania, under Ion Antonescu and his Nazi Iron Guard (Romanian: Garda de Fier), created the “Jewish Statue” that was similar to Nazi Germany’s Nurenberg Laws declaring who was a Jew and what Jews could and could not do.

Liviu’s Father was banned from being a Lawyer.

On November 23, 1940 Romania officially became a Member of the Axis Powers (along with Nazi Germany, Fascist Italy, Hungary, Finland, the Slovak Republic, the Kingdom of Bulgaria, Croatia and the Empire of Japan.)

In 1941 was deported to a Labor Camp in Transnistria (an area of Romania that the Soviets occupied from September 1939-June 1941 and again from 1945-1991 making it part of the Moldovan Soviet Socialist Republic) by the Romanian Nazis.

Liviu and his Mother were forced into the Focșani Ghetto and then a Forced Labor Camp.

His Parents and he were lucky to have survived the War as 380,000 Jewish Men, Women and Children were murdered by the Romanians during the Holocaust.

Ion Antonescu was Trialed for his Crimes and executed in 1946.

Liviu was 14 years old when World War 2 ended in May 1945 and Romania was under Soviet Occupation with the Communists governing Romania from 1947 until 1989.)

Liviu studied Aerospace Engineering at the Polytechnic University of Bucharest, graduating in 1952 and continuing with a Master's Degree at the same University.

He received his Ph.D. in Fluid Mechanics in 1969 at the Academia de Științe din România.

From 1953 to 1975, he worked as a Researcher at the Bucharest Institute of Applied Mechanics, and later at the Institute of Fluid Mechanics and the Institute of Fluid Mechanics and Aerospace Constructions of the Academy of Science of Romania.

He married Marlena and they had two Sons, Joseph and Arieh.

In the late 1970s his career stalled when he refused to swear Allegiance to Nicolae Ceaușescu's Government.

When he requested to Emigrate to Israel the Academy of Science of Romania fired him.

After months on end Communist Government refusal, Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin intervened to get the Librescu Family an Emigration Permit by directly asking Romanian President Nicolae Ceaușescu to let them go.

In 1978 Liviu and his Family moved to Israel.

From 1979 to 1986, Liviu was Professor of Aeronautical and Mechanical Engineering at Tel Aviv University and taught at the Technion in Haifa.

In 1985 he went to teach at Virginia Tech in the United States in the Department of Engineering Science and Mechanics.

On April 16, 2007 South Korean Seung-Hui Cho opened fired at Virginia Tech.

When Cho tried to enter the Classroom where Liviu was teaching Solid Mechanics Liviu held the door of his Classroom shut and yelled to his Students to escape through the windows.

Cho shot Liviu four times through the door.

Cho then entered the Classroom, and seeing only Liviu and one Student (Minal Panchal), got mad and shot and killed both of them.

Liviu Librescu was 76 years old.

Liviu is credited with saving the lives of 22 of the 23 Students in his Class by his actions.

The Massacre took place on Israel’s Holocaust Remembrance Day (Yom HaShoah).

On April 18, 2007, President of the United States George W. Bush honored Liviu at a Memorial Service held at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington DC.

On April 20, 2007 Liviu was buried at Ra’anana’s Cemetery in Israel.

In his native Romania a candle was lit and flowers laid at the  Polytechnic University of Bucharest.

Liviu was the Author of: 4 Monographs; 21 Chapters in Books; 288 Articles appeared in Peer-Reviewed Journals; 250 Papers included in the proceedings and 190 Lectures at National and International Conferences and Congresses; 40 invited Lectures to various Universities of the USA and in more than 10 Foreign Countries.

The President of Romania, Traian Basescu, Posthumously awarded him the National Order of the Star of Romania for his heroic role in the events at Virginia Tech.

The Street in front of the U.S. Embassy in Bucharest, Romania was named in his honor.

Helena Citronová

Helena Citronová

(Helena in her Auschwitz Prisoner’s Uniform taken by Wunsch during the War and Wunsch when he served at Auschwitz.)

Helena Citronová was born on August 22, 1922 in Humenné, Czechoslovakia (Present-Day: Humenné, Slovakia.)

Her Father was a Cantor (a Person who leads People in singing and prayers in a Synagogue.)

In March 1939 Germany invaded Czechoslovakia.

Germany split Czechoslovakia into two:

The Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia (in what used to be the Czech Republic) and was run by the Germans themselves.

The Slovak Republic (in what used to be Slovakia) and was run by a Catholic Priest Dictator, Jozef Tiso, who was a German Collaborator and Leader of the Slovakian Nazi Hlinka Party.

Tiso and his Hlinkas created the same Anti-Jewish Laws in Slovakia as Nazi Germany.

Starting in April 1939 Jews were forced to hand over their Land, their Businesses, the Net worth to the Hlinkas.

In 1940, Ústredňa Židov (or Jewish Centers) were created across the Slovak Republic to enforce the Hlinka’s Anti-Jewish Laws.

On September 9, 1941 the Hlinka created the “Jewish Code” based on Nazi Germany’s Nurenberg Laws and which contained 270 Anti-Jewish Articles.

All Jewish Men, Women and Children over 6 years old had to wear the Yellow Star of David, had a Curfew, could not live in certain areas, etc.

Tiso and the Hlinka made an agreement with Hitler and the Nazis to pay them 500 Reichsmarks ($4,137 in 2026 US Dollars) per Person that was deported out of the Slovak Republic and sent to Germany or any other German-Occupied Territory.

Helena was 21 years old when she arrived at the Auschwitz Death Camp in German-Occupied Poland on the first Transport from German-Occupied Slovakia on March 26, 1942.

Of the 997 Girls and Women who were sent with Helena on the First transport from the Slovak Republic to the Auschwitz Death Camp in German-Occupied Poland only 20 survived the War.

Helena was forced to work at Kanada (a Large Area of the Camp where all the belongings of those sent to Auschwitz were sorted, cleaned and then shipped to Families in Nazi Germany.)

In September 1942 Helena was forced to sing at an SS Guard’s Birthday

She sang the only German song she knew: “Liebe war es nie: ('It was never love'.)

It was Franz Wunsch’s Birthday and he noticed her singing and immediately fell in love with her.

Wunsche was a Guard at Kanada as well as at the Selections where the Men, Women and Children were selected to live as Forced Laborers or die by gas.

Wunsch started sending Helena presents and love letters.

Some time later Helena’s Sister, Roza, arrived at Auschwitz with her Husband and two Children (her 9 year old Daughter, Aviva and Infant Son.)

Helena sent Wunsch a secret letter and told him about her Sister and her Family.

Wunsch went to the Gas Chamber and removed Roza, but not her two Children who were gassed to death.

Wunsch was not able to save Helena’s Parents when they arrived and they were also gassed to death.

In January 1945, with the Soviet Red Army nearby, the Germans forced 58,000 Prisoners-  including Helena - on a Death March out of Auschwitz.

Before she left Wunsch gave her warm clothes to wear during the Death March (since it was cold and snowy.)

After the War Helena and Roza returned to Humenné which was now part of Czechoslovakia again.

In July 1945 they emigrated to the British Mandate of Palestine (Present-Day: Israel.)

The Catholic Priest Nazi Jozef Tiso was found guilty of Treason and Nazi Collaboration and hanged in 1947.

Helena married an Israel Defense Forces Soldier, David Tahori, changed her name to Zippora Tahori and had two Children.

Wunsch tracked Helena down in Israel and tried to contact her several times, but eventually gave uo and married someone else.

In 1972, Wunsch was put on Trial (in the Vienna Auschwitz Trial) for his role at Auschwitz and his Wife begged Helena to testify at his Trial.

Helena testified that she received help from Wunsch, but that she also witnesses him committing crimes on other People.

Wunsch was eventually released because the Statute of Limitations for his Crimes had expired in Austria.

In 2003 the Israeli Documentary “Love In Auschwitz” was released bringing Helena’s and Wunsch’s Story to the World.

Helena Citronová/ Zippora Tahori died on June 4, 2007 in Tel Aviv, Israel.

She was 84 years old.

Franz Wunsch died in Vienna, Austria on February 23, 2009.

In 2020, a Movie titled “Love Ot Was Not” was received about their Story.

Catalonia Day!

Happy Catalonia Day!

Feliç Dia Nacional de Catalunya!

AfD

The Alternative for Germany (German: Alternative für Deutschland) or AfD just won the Election in the German State of Saxony-Anhalt.

(One of many Rallies held across Germany in 2026 after the AfD won in the Saxony-Anhalt State Election.

in Saxony-Anhalt is the 8^th largest State in Germany with a population of 2.14 Million People.

Its State Capital is Magdeburg.

From 1945-1990 it was part of Communist East Germany.

AfD won received 43.8% of the vote in the State Election last Sunday so they did not receive a Majority and need another Party to help them govern in the State.

It is the first time that a Neo-Nazi Party won a State or Federal Election in Germany.

What is the AfD?

The AfD is a Neo-Nazi Party created on February 6, 2013.

It follows a belief of “Völkisch Nationalist” (German: Völkischer Nationalismus) or that Germany should only be for the Germans not only by getting rid of Legal Immigrants but also by using the same basic Racial Policies that the Nazis used from 1933-1945 to determine who is a “Pure German” and which led to the Holocaust and the Murder of 6 Million Jews, 1 Million Roma and Sinti, 10 Million Slavs, etc.

In short the AfD is:

Against Non-Germans legally living in Germany

Against Germany being part of the European Union

Against Germany being part of the Schengen Travel Area

Against Germany using the Euro

Against Germany being part of NATO (the North Atlantic Treaty Organization)

Is Pro-Russia

Is Anti-United States of America

Want to reintroduce Forced Russian Language Classes in all Schools the way it was in Communist East Germany from 1945-1990

Want to make Gay Marriage Illegal again (it has been legal in Germany since 2017)

Want to make it illegal to be Homosexual - the way it was in Germany from 1871 until 1994 under Paragraph 175 (which saw Homosexuals not only arrested but also murdered under the Nazis)

In December 2023, AfD distributed a flier in Gifhorn titled "Kindheit unterm Regenbogen" ("Childhood Under the Rainbow"), linking the queer community to pedophilia and genital mutilation, speaking of a "rainbow regime.”

Want to ban the flying of the Gay Pride Rainbow Flag in Germany

Alice Weidel, Co-Chairwomen of AfD since 2022 is an open Lesbian with 2 Children.

According to her own AfD Party they would arrest her for being Gay and force her to stay in the Kitchen and not work.

Want to end Germany’s “Culture of Shame” that has been around since 1945 and the World learned that the Germans murdered 20 Million Men, Women and Children.

Are Anti-Semitic (Anti-Jewish) and believe “the Holocaust is propaganda of the Allied Powers (ie the Americans, British, French and Soviets) -according to 10 AfD Leaders who were part of the Facebook Group “The Patriots.”

These 10 Leaders used a Meme of the Holocaust Victim Anne Frank's face edited on a pizza box labelled with the German equivalent of "fresh from the oven."

Believe in Holocaust Denial

Björn Höcke an AfD Leader was fined 13,000 Euros  in 2023 by the German Courts for using Nazi Slogans supporting “Lebensraum” (taking over more living space) and “Alles für Deutschland” or Everything for Germany.

Do not believe Germany should have Holocaust Memorials or Museums

Want to make it illegal to have Kosher Food in Germany

They are anti-Israel

Are Anti-Muslim and want to ban Halal Food in Germany

They used the following slogan on a billboard (in German): “"Islam does not belong to Germany. Its expansion and the ever-increasing number of Muslims in the country are viewed by the AfD as a danger to our state, our society, and our values.”

In January 2025 they distributed flyers resembling flight tickets labeled "Abschiebetickets" ("Deportation Tickets") in mailboxes with Muslim-sounding Last Names

Want to ban Abortion across Germany

Want to ban Circumcision across Germany

Believes Women should only be in the Kitchen cooking and raising Children – not working

Want to bring back Military Conscription in Germany (which was ended in 2011

If you think the Nazis can't happen again think again.

The Nazis started in the 1920s and didn't get a full majority of votes in the Elections but still managed to take over all of Germany and murder Millions of Men, Women and Children.

I believe the AfD are capable of the same.

84: Children

84 years ago today (September 4, 1942) in the Lodz Ghetto (renamed Litzmannstadt  by the Germans) in German-Occupied Lodz, Poland the Head of the Judenrat or Jewish Council (a Group formed by the Germans to carry out the running of the Ghetto) Chaim Rumkowski gave a public speech to the Inhabitants of the Ghetto in which he asked them to give up their Children, the Disabled, the Sick and the Elderly to the Germans for certain death.

The Lodz Ghetto was created by the Germans on April 30, 1940 and initially housed 163,777 People, but the Closure of smaller Ghettos across German-Occupied Poland and the Deportation of Jews from Germany and Austria brought the number 210,000 Men, Women and Children held in the Lodz Ghetto.

The Deportations to the Death Camps from the Lodz Ghetto began in December 1941 and initially everyone (except the Germans) thought the Residents were being sent to Slave Labor Camps.

By August 1942 everyone in the Lodz Ghetto knew that Deportation from the Ghetto meant certain death as 55,000 Men, Women and Children from the Ghetto had already been Deported and the trains came back with their blood-stained clothes (which the Inhabitants of the Ghetto had to clean to be sent to Germany.)

Chaim Rumkowski initially used the Deportations to get rid of anyone in the Ghetto he did not like, but the Germans kept demanding more and more People and so Rumkowski came up a deal to give the Germans the 13,000 Children and the 11,000 Elderly People left in the Lodz Ghetto with the hope to save the other, “Productive” Adults.

On September 4, 1942 Chaim Rumkowski said:

“A grievous blow has struck the Ghetto. They [the Germans] are asking us to give up the best we possess – the Children and the Elderly. I was unworthy of having a Child of my own, so I gave the best years of my life to Children. I've lived and breathed with Children, I never imagined I would be forced to deliver this sacrifice to the altar with my own hands. In my old age, I must stretch out my hands and beg: Brothers and Sisters! Hand them over to me! Fathers and Mothers: Give me your Children!”

The next Morning every single Man, Woman and Child in the Ghetto was forbidden to leave their homes as the Germans and Jewish Ghetto Police went door-to-door and took every Child under 10 years old, all the Sick and all the Elderly.

500 People were shot during the Round-Up inside the Ghetto.

24,000 People (13,000 Children and 11,000 Elderly) were Deported from the Lodz Ghetto that day and sent to the Chelmno Death Camp 37 miles away where they were stripped naked, forced to walk through confusing Hallways until they reached a door and entered a room.

That room was really a Gas Van (Vans that drove around while the People inside were suffocated to death by the toxic gas fumes being pumped inside.)

After 20 minutes everyone inside the Vans was dead. Their Bodies were then burned.

Chaim Rumkowski was deported to the Auschwitz Death Camp on August 28, 1944 where the Jewish Sonderkommando (Jewish Prisoners forced by the Germans to work during the Selection and in the Gas Chambers) beat him to death (at the door of Crematorium 2) for his role in murdering the Jews.

The Lodz Ghetto was liquidated by the Germans in August 1944.

A handful of People were left in the Ghetto to clean it up.

When the Soviet Red Army entered Lodz on January 19, 1945, only 877 Jews were still alive, 12 of whom were Children (who had been hidden inside the Ghetto.)

Of the 223,000 Jews in Lodz before the German Invasion, only 10,000 survived the Holocaust in other places.

Picture: Children rounded up for Deportation to the Chelmno Death Camp where they were gassed to death in September 1942.

V-J Day

 

Bram Asscher

Bram Asscher

Abraham “Bram” Asscher was born on August 28, 1924 in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.

He was the Son of Eliazer Asscher (1878-1935) and Stephanie Fischer (1895-unknown).

He had an older Brother, Isaäc Jacques Asscher (1916), and a younger one, Jacob (Jeannot, Jean) Asscher (1925).

His Father was a Diamond Merchant and a Brother of Abraham Asscher (1880-1950), one of the two Presidents of the German-Appointed Jewish Council (Dutch: Joodse Raad and German: Judenrat) during the German Occupation of the Netherlands.

Bram’s Father died in 1945 in Paris, France.

The Germans invaded and occupied the Netherlands on May 10,1940.

The Germans forced all Jewish Children to leave Dutch Schools and were only allowed to attend a Jewish School.

Bram went to the Jewish Lyceum in Amsterdam for the 1941-1942 School Year.

It was in Class 4B2 that Bram met Margot Frank (the older Sister of Anne Frank.)

Margot had been a Student at the Jeker School in Amsterdam, but the Anti-Jewish Laws created by the Germans in the Netherlands forced her to the Jewish Lyceum.

In March 1941 Bram’s Mother married Dirk Leendert Tollenaar, a Gentile (ie. Non-Jewish.)

According to the German Anti-Jewish Laws she was now in a Mixed Marriage and had an Exemption from Deportation.

Her Children, however, were considered to be Full Jews since both their Parents were Jewish,

Bram’s Oldest Brother Jacques fled German-Occupied the Netherlands in April 1941.

He traveled by Train to Brussels, Belgium, Paris, France, then to Spain (which was Neutral during World War 2) and to Portugal (which was Neutral during World War 2) where he went to the United States (which was Neutral during World War 2 from September 1, 1939-December 8, 1941) to Canada and then arrived in Scotland, the United Kingdom in 1942 in order to fight with the Free Dutch Military against the Germans.

Together with his Brother Jacob, Bram was transported to the Westerbork Transit Camp in northern German-Occupied the Netherlands on September 29, 1943.

Bram was in the “Free’ Section of Westerbork, but met up with Margot (who was in the Punishment Section of Westerbork because she had been found in Hiding.)

Bram was allowed to write 1 Letter to his Mother every 14 days.

On August 25, 1944 Bram wrote his Mother that Margot, Anne and their Parents (who Bram’s Mother also knew) were in the Punishment Section of Westerbork.

In the Letter he wrote:

'Mama, do you know that Margot is here? That friend of Trees. You remember her, don't you? She's in the S with her Parents and Sister. Very sad!'”

Bram’s Letter is one of the few Personal Sources that refer to the Frank Family at Westerbork.

Also in his letters from Westerbork, Bram often wrote about his Fiancée Trees Lek, who was held at the Camp Vught together with her two Sisters, and her Parents, who were with him in Westerbork.

On September 3, 1944 Margot and her Family were deported on the last Cattle Car Train from Westerbork to the Auschwitz Death Camp in German-Occupied Poland.

On September 13, 1944 Bram and his Brother Jacob were deported from Westerbork to the Bergen-Belsen Concentration Camp in Germany.

On April 9, 1945 (9 days before Bergen-Belsen was liberated by the British) Bram and his Brother (along with 2,500 other Prisoners) were forced out of the Camp and made to walk 6 miles to the Train Station in Celle, Germany where they were put on a Train headed to the Theresienstadt Ghetto in German-Occupied Czechoslovakia.

On April 13, 1945 the Train stopped near Magdeburg, Germany and was liberated by the Allies.

After the War, he returned to the Netherlands.

Margot and Anne Frank and their Parents arrived at the Auschwitz Death Camp 3 days after their left Westerbork.

Of the 1,019 Passengers, 549—including all Children younger than 15—were sent directly to the Gas Chambers and murdered.

 The Men were separated from the Women. It was the last time Margot and Anne saw their Father.

Margot was forced to haul rocks and dig rolls of sod by day; by night, they were crammed into overcrowded barracks. Being outside all day she regularly saw People walking to their deaths in the Gas Chambers.

In October 1944 their Group was selected to leave Auschwitz and go to the Leibau Labor Camp, but Anne had contacted Scabies and so went to the Camp’s Hospital instead.

 Margot and their Mother volunteered to stay in Auschwitz to care for Anne.

On October 28, 1944, after recovering from Scabies, Anne, Margot and Mrs. Van Pels left Auschwitz and went to the Bergen-Belsen Concentration Camp in Germany.

Around March 1945, Anne died from Typhus at 15 years old a few days after her Sister, Margot who was 18 years old.

They were both buried in an unknown Mass Grave.

87: WW 2

 

85: Star of David

85 years ago today (September 1, 1941) the Germans required Jews in Germany, Austria and Czechoslovakia  to wear a Yellow Star of David with the German Word “Jude” for “Jew.”

(A Jewish Girl in German-Occupied Croatia forced to wear a Star of David with the Ž for “Židov”, English: “Jew” on it.)

Every Man, Woman and Child over the age of 6 had to buy these Badges (using their own Clothing Ration Coupons) and have them clearly visible on their outer clothing (including a coat) so that they could easily be identified and discriminated against for being Jewish.

When Germany invaded Poland on September 1, 1939 they required Jews there to wear a White Armband with a Blue Star of David for the same purpose.

(Jewish People in German-Occupied Belgium forced to wear the Star of David with the J (for "Jude" in German, "Juif" in French and "Jood" in Dutch.)

Parts of Poland had different Badges. In German-Occupied Warsaw Jews had to wear the Armband and in German-Occupied Lodz Jews had to wear the Yellow Star (because that part of Poland was illegally annexed into Germany.)

(A Jewish Man in German-Occupied Poland forced to wear the Star of David Armband.)

In every European and North African Country/Territory that Germany occupied during World War 2 the Jews there had to wear similar Identifying Badges with the local name for “Jew” on it (French: “Juif”, Dutch: “Jood”, Croatian: Ž for “Židov”, English: “Jew” for the British Channel Islands which Germany occupied, etc.)

Failure to not wear the Armband or the Star or to “hide it” and not have it clearly visible resulted in instant death.

This requirement was on top of every Jewish Man, Woman and Child having to carry an Identity Card with a large “J” on it – since 1938 in Germany and every German Jewish Man, Woman and Child having to add either “Israel” for Men or “Sara” for Women to their Names to be “more easily recognizable as Jews” – since 1936.

The Germans wanted to first identity the Jews and then to murder them.

84: Wiesbaden And Frankfurt

 

84 years ago today (August 27, 1942) the Germans Rounded-Up 600 Jewish Men, Women and Children  - most of them Elderly and Sick from Wiesbaden, Germany.

(The Germans deporting the Elderly Jewish Men and Women from Wiesbaden. Germany in August 1942.)

On August 29, 1942 they were sent to Frankfurt where another 600 Jewish Men, Women and Children were added to the Round-Up.

On September 1, 1942 they left by Train for the Theresienstadt Ghetto in German-Occupied Czechoslovakia.

Later most were deported from Theresienstadt to the Auschwitz Death Camp in German-Occupied Poland.

Only 32 of the 1,200 from Wiesbaden and Frankfurt survived the War.

82: Auschwitz Photo

 

82 years ago today (August 25, 1944) an American Air Reconnaissance Plane flew over the Auschwitz Death Camp in German-Occupied Poland.

It took pictures of the Camp from 30,000 feet.

29 Photographs were taken in total.

This one shows Auschwitz 2 (Auschwitz Birkenau) the Death Camp.

This Picture shows the Women’s Camp; the Guard Towers; the Main Camp Gate; a Cattle Car with 33 Wagons; Four of the Gas Chambers with the Crematoria as well as a burning pit behind Gas Chamber 5 where bodies were burned; a Group of newly arrived Prisoners are also seen going to the Admission Building to be shaved, showered and tattooed with a Camp Number.

At the bottom of the picture you can also see Men, Women and Children who just arrived and are walking to their death at the Gas Chamber.

The US didn’t bomb the Auschwitz Death Camp or even the Train Tracks (or any Death Camps.)

The US, British and Soviet Governments knew about the Death Camps – especially by August 1944 when this Photograph was taken – but chose not to do anything to help the Victims.

1.1 Million Men, Women and Children were murdered at Auschwitz alone.

82: Parade

(American Victory Parade in Paris, France – August 29, 1944.)

82 years ago today (August 25, 1944) Paris was liberated from the Germans.

2,000 Parisian Civilians were killed during the Liberation of Paris.

1,600 French Resistance Members were killed.

130 Free French Soldiers were killed.

The 2nd Armored Division suffered 71 killed and 225 wounded.

12,800 Germans became Prisoners of War.

10,000 Parisians who had Collaborated (French Women had their heads shaved) with the Germans were arrested and tried, 8,000 were convicted, and 116 were executed by the Allies after the War.

General Dietrich von Choltitz was sent to London, England where he stayed for the remainder of the War and then he was transferred to Camp Clinton in Mississippi, USA until his release in 1947. He died in 1966.

General Charles de Gaulle became Chairman of the Provisional Government of the French Republic from June 1944 until January 1946 then the French Prime Minister from 1958-1959 and then the French President from 1959-1969. He died in 1970.

“Is Paris Burning” is a 1966 Film that shows the Liberation of Paris (blending acting with archival footage.

82: Paris

82 years ago today (August 25, 1944) Paris, France was liberated from German Occupation by the Americans, the British and the Free French during World War 2.

(As Allied Troops enter Paris on August 25, 1944, celebrating crowds on place De La Concorde scatter for cover from small bands of remaining German Snipers.)

Paris had been occupied by the Germans since June 14, 1940. A Curfew was in effect from 9 pm in until 5 am and at night, the City of Light went dark.

Rationing of food, tobacco, coal and clothing was initiated in September 1940. Every year the supplies grew scarcer and the prices higher. The French Press and Radio Broadcast only German Propaganda.

Jews in Paris were forced to wear the Yellow Star of David Badge and were barred from Professions and Public Places.

On July 16-17, 1942, 13,152 Parisian Jews, including 4,115 Children, were rounded up by the French Police, on orders of the Germans, and were sent to the Auschwitz Death Camp in German-Occupied Poland (of the 76,000 French Jews deported from France.)

Following the Allied Invasion of Normandy on June, 6, 1944, the French Resistance in Paris launched an Uprising on August 19th, seizing the Police Headquarters and other Government Buildings.

On August 7, 1944 , Dietrich von Choltitz was appointed the Military Governor of the Garrison of "Greater Paris" (Groβ Paris) with 20,000 German Soldiers in Paris.

The French Resistance in Paris had 19,000 Members , but only 60 hand guns, a few machine guns, and no heavy weapons.

On August 20th Barricades were erected across Paris by the French Resistance and Ordinary Parisians. Fighting broke out between the French Resistance and the Germans from August 20th to 25th when the Resistance was joined by the Free French and the Americans.

General von Choltitz had been ordered by Hitler to leave the city a "heap of burning ruins", but he also realized the battle was lost, and he did not want to be captured by the Resistance.

Through the offices of the Swedish Consul-General, Raoul Nordling, he ignored Hitler's orders and arranged a truce. In the afternoon of the 25th he traveled from his Headquarters in the Hôtel Meurice to the Montparnasse Train Station, the Headquarters of General Leclerc, where he signed the Surrender.

The Occupation of Paris was officially over.

General Charles de Gaulle held his Free French Victory Parade in Paris on August 26, 1944.

America held its Victory Parade in Paris on August 29, 1944.

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