Pilot In The Danish Brigade In Sweden During The Second World War
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Pilot In The Danish Brigade In Sweden During The Second World War
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Author : Aage Sandqvist
language : en
Publisher: BoD - Books on Demand
Release Date : 2021-06-25
Pilot In The Danish Brigade In Sweden During The Second World War written by Aage Sandqvist and has been published by BoD - Books on Demand this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-06-25 with History categories.
During the second half of World War II, Sweden began to provide confidential assistance to its two neighbours, Norway and Denmark. This aid was in the form of so-called police camps, where refugees from these two German occupied countries could gather and prepare for a return to their homelands, when the Germans were expected to give up. In the home countries, these police forces were to restore order in society, and this motivation from neutral Sweden was tolerated by the Germans. But as time went on, the character changed from being police forces to becoming more and more regular military troops, although with simple weapons. The so-called Danish Brigade eventually consisted of nearly 5,000 Danish refugees, who were placed in various camps around Sweden. Among these Danish refugees, were slightly more than a dozen Danish pilots, who were secretly placed in pairs on different Swedish airbases. They eventually gained access to Sweden's foremost military aircraft, namely the Saab B17 dive-bomber. In the last days of the war, these pilots gathered at the F7 Såtenäs airbase on the shores of Lake Vänern, where they formed the Danish Brigade's Air Unit. Its main purpose was to support the Danish Brigade's return to Denmark. One of these pilots was the author's father, Lieutenant Carlo Hjalmar Sandqvist. Carlo is the "Pilot in the Danish Brigade in Sweden during the Second World War." This book presents inside views of the Danish resistance movement and German concentration camps in Denmark during World War II, and a dramatic escape. It describes the Danish Brigade in Sweden - a secret organization in which Sweden trained up to 5,000 Danish refugees as "police troops", eventually a paramilitary organization. It also presents the secret Swedish military plan for "Saving Denmark" in the last year of the war.
Soe In Denmark
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Author :
language : en
Publisher: Frontline Books
Release Date : 2021-09-30
Soe In Denmark written by and has been published by Frontline Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-09-30 with History categories.
From a small number of clandestine activities against the German occupation of Denmark in 1940, a sophisticated resistance movement developed which by 1944, with the support of Special Operations Executive, had become a highly effective intelligence gathering and sabotage organisation. Denmark is composed of a mainland and more than 500 islands, a fifth of which are inhabited, and the countryside is devoid of any inaccessible or mountainous region. Together this made communication between resistance cells difficult and meant that there were no natural bases from which guerrilla operations could be mounted. Nevertheless, thanks to supply drops of explosives, weapons and ammunition arranged by SOE, the Danes harassed the Germans and raised the moral of the Danish people in the latter, and most brutal, stages of the war. This largely forgotten story of SOE and its agents in Denmark, the latter facing extremely hazardous conditions, was written immediately after the war by a SOE staff member and read and validated by the Director of SOE, Major General Colin Gubbins. A very large number of documents were burned at SOE’s London headquarters in Baker Street when the organisation was wound down in 1946 making this history of the Danish Section an invaluable and irreplaceable study. SOE in Denmark was written at a time when SOE was still largely unknown to the general public and its operations a closely guarded secret. It was expected that its activities would never be officially acknowledged and the study of its actions in Denmark was compiled with the aim of provide a lasting record of its achievement. Within its pages we read of the dangers the agents faced, the logistical mountains they had to overcome, and the successes achieved in the face of a ruthless enemy. Completed with unique photographs from the Danish archives, SOE in Denmark is an essential addition to the SOE literature.
A Deadly Harvest
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Author : Douglas Arthur Brown
language : en
Publisher: Sydney, N.S. : Solus Pub. c1999.
Release Date : 1999
A Deadly Harvest written by Douglas Arthur Brown and has been published by Sydney, N.S. : Solus Pub. c1999. this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999 with Denmark categories.
Battles For Scandinavia
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Author : John Robert Elting
language : en
Publisher: Time Life Medical
Release Date : 1981
Battles For Scandinavia written by John Robert Elting and has been published by Time Life Medical this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1981 with History categories.
Profusely illustrated text describes the history of World War II in Sweden and Finland.
Selections From The Smuts Papers August 1945 October 1950
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Author : Jan Christiaan Smuts
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1966
Selections From The Smuts Papers August 1945 October 1950 written by Jan Christiaan Smuts and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1966 with categories.
Danish Reactions To German Occupation
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Author : Carsten Holbraad
language : en
Publisher: UCL Press
Release Date : 2017-02-06
Danish Reactions To German Occupation written by Carsten Holbraad and has been published by UCL Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-02-06 with History categories.
For five years during World War II, Denmark was occupied by Germany. While the Danish reaction to this period of its history has been extensively discussed in Danish-language publications, it has not until now received a thorough treatment in English. Set in the context of modern Danish foreign relations, and tracing the country’s responses to successive crises and wars in the region, Danish Reactions to German Occupation brings a full overview of the occupation to an English-speaking audience. Holbraad carefully dissects the motivations and ideologies driving conduct during the occupation, and his authoritative coverage of the preceding century provides a crucial link to understanding the forces behind Danish foreign policy divisions. Analysing the conduct of a traumatised and strategically exposed small state bordering on an aggressive great power, the book traces a development from reluctant cooperation to active resistance. In doing so, Holbraad surveys and examines the subsequent, and not yet quite finished, debate among Danish historians about this contested period, which takes place between those siding with the resistance and those more inclined to justify limited cooperation with the occupiers – and who sometimes even condone various acts of collaboration.
Selections From The Smuts Papers August 1945 October 1950 Biographical Notes And Index
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Author : Jan Christiaan Smuts
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1966
Selections From The Smuts Papers August 1945 October 1950 Biographical Notes And Index written by Jan Christiaan Smuts and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1966 with Soldiers categories.
The Danish Resistance
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Author : David Lampe
language : en
Publisher: Pickle Partners Publishing
Release Date : 2016-08-09
The Danish Resistance written by David Lampe and has been published by Pickle Partners Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-08-09 with History categories.
A HISTORY OF FIVE YEARS OF SECRET WARFARE AGAINST THE NAZI OCCUPATION Students were the first to resist Entire cities went on strike All the Danish population worked to save their Jewish countrymen V-2 component factories were destroyed in pitched battles General Montgomery described the Danish Resistance as “second to none.” By the end of the war, illegal newspapers had published a total of about 26 million issues; radio guides for Allied aircraft had been set up on the coasts; boats were running timetable services between Britain, Sweden and Denmark; illegal broadcasts were transmitted regularly; German ships were unable to move from Danish harbors; and vast numbers of German troops were kept from the main fighting points by Danish sabotage of the railways and airfields, and of the factories that the Nazis thought would be invulnerable sources of vital air force and military components. It is a fantastic story, full of tales of impudent, almost foolhardy heroism. With every reason to collaborate in safety, the Danes established an international news bureau that provided the Allies with a continuous service of inside information; they shipped seven thousand Jews to safety; they organized strikes; they spirited away most of Denmark’s tug fleet; they even established an office of the British Ministry of Food in Copenhagen. A quarter of a million feet of film recording their activities were shot by the Resistance under the eyes of the Gestapo, including photographs of many of their sabotage raids, which were meticulously planned. To the Danish Resistance the Nazis were not all-conquering supermen but dangerous fools to be parried at every turn. Their story is one of which any nation would be proud. Illustrated with 19 photographs.
The Encyclopedia Americana
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1962
The Encyclopedia Americana written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1962 with Encyclopedias and dictionaries categories.
The Encyclopedia Americana
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Author : Alexander Hopkins McDonnald
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1950
The Encyclopedia Americana written by Alexander Hopkins McDonnald and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1950 with Encyclopedias and dictionaries categories.