Is that a pipe in your pocket? Or ...?I was thinking the classic tobacco pipe...
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Then again, even if it's a pipe, the guy further on the left is definitely armed, so....
Besides which, the German units stationed in Denmark were not the Panzer Lehr, or 2 SS Panzer.
They were most definitely second- if not third-rate troops.
The German army referred to Denmark as the 'Whipped Cream Front'.
Nothing much happened compared to e.g. France or Russia. Most instances were civil disobedience and/or union strikes, that sort of thing.
As for the much-celebrated (at least in Denmark) resistance movement, there were maybe 2500-3000 organized resistance fighters, out of a population of 3.8M.
This is not to denigrate their efforts, but there's an argument to be made that Frikorps Danmark (Danish voluntary unit who fought under SS command) had a bigger impact on history than anything the resistance movement managed to do.
Besides which, the German units stationed in Denmark were not the Panzer Lehr, or 2 SS Panzer.
They were most definitely second- if not third-rate troops.
The German army referred to Denmark as the 'Whipped Cream Front'.
Nothing much happened compared to e.g. France or Russia. Most instances were civil disobedience and/or union strikes, that sort of thing.
As for the much-celebrated (at least in Denmark) resistance movement, there were maybe 2500-3000 organized resistance fighters, out of a population of 3.8M.
This is not to denigrate their efforts, but there's an argument to be made that Frikorps Danmark (Danish voluntary unit who fought under SS command) had a bigger impact on history than anything the resistance movement managed to do.
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A smile before the approaching storm.... Danish soldiers are photographed smiling behind a Madsen light machine gun hours before facing the German invaders, Bredevad, Denmark, April 9, 1940.
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This members of the Danish Resistance Movement was photographed in Kalundborg, a port city of Denmark, in 1945. They are armed with Swedish-made 9mm Kpist M37/39 submachine guns.
Can't help it, but those helmets always make me laugh.
Every time.
Every time.
