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Title: | The King of Denmark | |||
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| Name: | Gordon | | |||
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| City: | Vancouver | State: | Canada | | |
| A few points evidently omitted from your history classes: Norway was inaccessible to the Germans except via the sea, and it was thought that the British fleet would prevent an invasion that way. So the Danes had a hope of holding out. Holland expected to thwart the Germans by using their canal system. Both held out against the Nazis until they realizes that their calculations were wrong. Unlike those two countries, Denmark never had anything that could have slowed, much less stopped, the Nazis. Like them, it surrendered when that fact became clear - it was just not so clear to the other two at first. I would be surprised if any decent Norwegian or Dutchman would put Denmark down for capitulating as early as it did. Presumably you wouldn`t have done so either if you had known the facts. As for the "the Germans permitted it" story - why are some of you, luckily a small minority, so intent on re-writing history to try to misrepresent the many acts of heroism against the Nazis? |
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