danish service rifle
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CatfishSteve
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good question being of Danish desent I'll help look into it
thats why i wanted to know,i recived all my grandfathers war time items,like his dog tags and soldaterbog,all his papers.
I want to finish off with a service rifle like the one he would have used.
Lee Enfield
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Hmmmn, the King ordered the ceremonial palace guard to surrender because he didn't want them all killed fighting against such superior forces.
No the Danes didn't "drop and run", they were overwhelmed.
The King of Denmark adopted a "Yellow Star" and encouraged all Danes to wear it to stop the Nazis from rounding up all the Jews....
BEN HUNCHAK;
May I respectfully suggest you study some WW-11 history before making such an uninformed statement....
Better yet, next time you are in Copenhagen perhaps a visit to the WW-11 "Resistance Museum" will in your education regarding a damn brave and proud people....
Are you well read regarding the Danish underground activities ?? Have you informed yourself regarding what this small nation had to endure under German occupation ?
Read and learn....
John
May I respectfully suggest you study some WW-11 history before making such an uninformed statement....
Better yet, next time you are in Copenhagen perhaps a visit to the WW-11 "Resistance Museum" will in your education regarding a damn brave and proud people....
Are you well read regarding the Danish underground activities ?? Have you informed yourself regarding what this small nation had to endure under German occupation ?
Read and learn....
John
thank you
Tony Gauthier
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Father in law was in Denmark during WW2. Said the storm troopers arrived at night. The first thing they did was pull the gun registry papers and shot one gun owner, pinned a note on the body for everyone to turn in there guns. He said he had to walk a long hallway lined with German troops and turn in his single shot shotgun. I asked him what he did then, and his reply was " I dug the rest of the guns out of the hay loft and joined the Danish underground. They successfully made the nazi's time in Denmark hell. The germans never did find the antennae for receiving BBC broadcasts, which had codes incorperated to tell them what to blow up next. Small groups with no one knowing anyone in the next group so they couldn't tell much if torchered.
He sure hated to see the gun registry happen here. Wonder why????
vagrantviking
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WWII in Denmark officially only lasted a couple days. Unofficially they used every weapon that they could get ahold of - much of it taken off of the Germans.
And now I will stray a little from the topic...
My grandmother was a nurse during the war and involved in the resistance. She was picked up by the Gestapo at the Copenhagen train station once but that is as much as I know. She wouldn't talk about any of it.
The King wearing the yellow star is a bit of an urban legend. Its more that the Germans didn't dare go as far as that because they were worried about the populace rising up and going on strike.
Ref: http://www.edb.utexas.edu/resources/booksR4teens/book_reviews/book_reviews.php?book_id=22
http://www.auschwitz.dk/Denmark.htm I'll quote a bit here:
"In the book Queen in Denmark by Anne Wolden-Ræthinge the Danish Queen Margrethe II says about the legend:"It is a beautiful and symbolic story, but it is not true. The myth about the King wearing the star of David ... I can imagine that this could have originated from a typical remark by a Copenhagen errand boy on his bicycle: 'If they try to enforce the yellow star here, the King will be the first to wear it!' To me, the truth is an even greater honor for our country than the myth."
King Christian X became a prominent figure for the real views of the majority of the Danish population. The King made it his practice to ride his horse alone through Copenhagen every morning to underline his continuing claims for national sovereignty, unarmed and without escort. He became a national symbol for rich and poor alike, a positive contrast to German militarism and to the cult of the Fuhrer. In fact King Christian rejected many aspects of the occupation, made speeches against the occupying force and became known as a protector of the Jews.
In December 1941, after an arson at the synagogue in Copenhagen, he sent a letter of sympathy to Rabbi Marcus Melchior. The welfare of the Danish Jews was of great importance to the king and the Danish government. "There is no Jewish question in Denmark" were the words of Foreign Minister Erik Scavenius to the German top Nazi Hermann Goring in autumn 1941.
Tales of King Christian's snubbing of Hitler and the Nazis (some true and some apocryphal) began to circulate. When Hitler sent a letter of congratulations to King Christian X on the latter's 70th birthday in September 1942, the monarch's brief response ("My best thanks") was taken as an insult by Hitler, who recalled and replaced the German ambassador in Denmark."
And now I will stray a little from the topic...
My grandmother was a nurse during the war and involved in the resistance. She was picked up by the Gestapo at the Copenhagen train station once but that is as much as I know. She wouldn't talk about any of it.
The King wearing the yellow star is a bit of an urban legend. Its more that the Germans didn't dare go as far as that because they were worried about the populace rising up and going on strike.
Ref: http://www.edb.utexas.edu/resources/booksR4teens/book_reviews/book_reviews.php?book_id=22
http://www.auschwitz.dk/Denmark.htm I'll quote a bit here:
"In the book Queen in Denmark by Anne Wolden-Ræthinge the Danish Queen Margrethe II says about the legend:"It is a beautiful and symbolic story, but it is not true. The myth about the King wearing the star of David ... I can imagine that this could have originated from a typical remark by a Copenhagen errand boy on his bicycle: 'If they try to enforce the yellow star here, the King will be the first to wear it!' To me, the truth is an even greater honor for our country than the myth."
King Christian X became a prominent figure for the real views of the majority of the Danish population. The King made it his practice to ride his horse alone through Copenhagen every morning to underline his continuing claims for national sovereignty, unarmed and without escort. He became a national symbol for rich and poor alike, a positive contrast to German militarism and to the cult of the Fuhrer. In fact King Christian rejected many aspects of the occupation, made speeches against the occupying force and became known as a protector of the Jews.
In December 1941, after an arson at the synagogue in Copenhagen, he sent a letter of sympathy to Rabbi Marcus Melchior. The welfare of the Danish Jews was of great importance to the king and the Danish government. "There is no Jewish question in Denmark" were the words of Foreign Minister Erik Scavenius to the German top Nazi Hermann Goring in autumn 1941.
Tales of King Christian's snubbing of Hitler and the Nazis (some true and some apocryphal) began to circulate. When Hitler sent a letter of congratulations to King Christian X on the latter's 70th birthday in September 1942, the monarch's brief response ("My best thanks") was taken as an insult by Hitler, who recalled and replaced the German ambassador in Denmark."
I think the Danish WW2 service rifle was 'whatever the dead German dropped, or my neighbour smuggled from Britain or Sweden' it's actually amazing how many Danes were travelling across the North Sea (pretty much hell's *sshole in winter) to Britain, and then going back with supplies. My relatives in the North of England remember this happening quite regularly. Anyone who would make that crossing in a small boat and then go back to a Nazi occupied country by the same route is more than OK in my books.
