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The people of this town or city all wore arm bands to indentify themselves as Jews to the Nazis.

2007-02-07 05:56:03 · 2 answers · asked by chesa 1 in Arts & Humanities History

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The whole country belonged to the resistance movement. Becase people refused to sit next to Germans in buses, the occupying authorities passed a law making it illegal to stand on a bus if a seat was available. People wore paper clips on their lapels; an innocuous item, the paper clip was assumed to be a Norwegian invention, and represented uniting against the occupation.

When Denmark fell to the Nazi armies in 1940, the German occupation authorities immediately decreed that all Jews wear the yellow Star of David on their sleeves at all times, to facilitate their identification for transit to the concentration camps. Legend has it that the very next morning King Christian X, the aging Danish monarch, came out of the palace for his morning walk wearing a yellow Star of David on his coat, thus expressing his solidarity with the persecuted minority. Word quickly spread about this silent and non-violent act of defiance and soon many other Danes were wearing the symbol on their sleeves. Though historians disagree about the actual prevalence of this simple act of Danish resistance,there is no doubt that the population’s compassion and resistance contributed to the fact that almost all of Denmark’s Jews survived the barbarism of the holocaust that took the lives of most European Jews.

2007-02-07 07:16:52 · answer #1 · answered by Doethineb 7 · 3 0

All of them

2007-02-09 09:58:02 · answer #2 · answered by idiotjim 3 · 0 0

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