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To: M Kehoe
I just don’t know. We liberated them twice from Germany

Apparently not. Denmark wasn't occupied during World War I and was occupied by Germany the day World War II ended.

18 posted on 08/21/2019 11:30:39 AM PDT by DoodleDawg
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To: DoodleDawg
Apparently not. Denmark wasn't occupied during World War I and was occupied by Germany the day World War II ended.

From Wikipedia: "Denmark in World War 2"

At the outset of World War II, Denmark declared itself neutral. For most of the war, the country was a protectorate, then an occupied territory of Germany. The decision to occupy Denmark was taken in Berlin on 17 December 1939. On 9 April 1940, Germany occupied Denmark in Operation Weserübung and the king and government functioned as normal in a de facto protectorate over the country until 29 August 1943, when Germany placed Denmark under direct military occupation, which lasted until the Allied victory on 5 May 1945. Contrary to the situation in other countries under German occupation, most Danish institutions continued to function relatively normally until 1945. Both the Danish government and king remained in the country in an uneasy relationship between a democratic and a totalitarian system until the Danish government stepped down in a protest against the German demands to institute the death penalty for sabotage.

Just over 3,000 Danes died as a direct result of the occupation. (A further 2,000 volunteers of Free Corps Denmark and Waffen SS, of which most originated from the German minority of southern Denmark, died fighting on the German side on the Eastern Front while 1,072 merchant sailors died in Allied service.) Overall this represents a very low mortality rate when compared to other occupied countries and most belligerent countries. (See: World War II casualties.)

An effective resistance movement developed by the end of the war, and most Danish Jews were rescued in 1943 when German authorities ordered their internment as part of the Holocaust.


27 posted on 08/21/2019 12:08:30 PM PDT by COBOL2Java (AOC: The brain of a tea bisquit)
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To: DoodleDawg

True. It was one of the pockets left over at the end but the end ended the occupation.


38 posted on 08/21/2019 12:32:38 PM PDT by xp38
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To: DoodleDawg
Apparently not. Denmark wasn't occupied during World War I and was occupied by Germany the day World War II ended.

It was occupied by Germany since 1940, which was a long time before the war ended. I knew something was wrong with your statement when I read it because I recall the big flap about the Danish king saying something like "We'll all have to wear yellow stars." (disputed, by the way.)

https://en.natmus.dk/historical-knowledge/denmark/german-occupation-1940-1945/

51 posted on 08/21/2019 1:31:15 PM PDT by DiogenesLamp ("of parents owing allegiance to no oither sovereignty.")
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To: DoodleDawg

So, what do you think? Invade both Greenland and Denmark simultaneously?

Heck, we probably wouldn’t have to fire a shot in Greenland.

5.56mm


61 posted on 08/21/2019 3:35:40 PM PDT by M Kehoe (DRAIN THE SWAMP! BUILD THE WALL!)
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