Hitler's Savage Canary: A History of the Danish Resistance in World War Ii

Adolf Hitler stated that after occupation Denmark would turn into a ‘model protectorate’. Winston Churchill meanwhile maintained that the small country of (then) four million people would become ‘the sadistic murderer’s canary’. In the end, neither was right. With no help initially from the Allies, the Danes set up a resistance movement that proved to be a constant irritation to the occupation forces – not a meek canary, but a dangerous and courageous bird of prey that refused to be caged.Read More