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Countrymen : The Untold Story of How Denmark's Jews Escaped the Nazis, of the Courage of Their Fellow Danes--And of the Extraordinary Role of the SS by Bo Lidegaard (2013, Hardcover)

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Countrymen: The Untold Story of How Denmark's Jews Escaped the Nazis HC Book.

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Amid the dark, ghastly history of World War II, the literally extraordinary story, never before fully researched by a historian, of how the Danish people banded together to save their fellow Jews from the Nazis--told through the remarkable unpublished diaries and documents of families forced to run for safety, leaving their homes and possessions behind, and of those who courageously came to their aid. In 1943, with its king and administration weakened but intact during the Nazi occupation, Denmark did something that no other country in Western Europe even attempted. Anticipating that the German occupying powers would soon issue the long-feared order to round up the entire population of Jews for deportation to concentration camps, the Danish people stood up in defiance and resisted. The king, politicians, and ordinary civilians were united in their response--these threatened people were not simply Jews but fellow Danes who happened to be Jewish, and no one would help in rounding them up for confinement and deportation. While diplomats used their limited but very real power to maneuver and impede matters in both Copenhagen and Berlin, the warning that the crisis was at hand quickly spread through the Jewish community. Over fourteen harrowing days, as they were helped, hidden, and protected by ordinary people who spontaneously rushed to save their fellow citizens, an incredible 7,742 out of 8,200 Jewish refugees were smuggled out all along the coast--on ships, schooners, fishing boats, anything that floated--to Sweden. While the bare facts of this exodus have been known for decades, astonishingly no full history of it has been written. Unfolding on a day-to-day basis, Countrymen brings together accounts written by individuals and officials as events happened, offering a comprehensive overview that underlines occupied Denmark's historical importance to Hitler as a prop for the model Nazi state and revealing the savage conflict among top Nazi brass for control of the country. This is a story of ordinary glory, of simple courage and moral fortitude that shines out in the midst of the terrible history of the twentieth century and demonstrates how it was possible for a small and fragile democracy to stand against the Third Reich.

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Publisher
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
ISBN-10
0385350155
ISBN-13
9780385350150
eBay Product ID (ePID)
159995862

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Book Title
Countrymen : The Untold Story of How Denmark's Jews Escaped the Nazis, of the Courage of Their Fellow Danes--And of the Extraordinary Role of the SS
Author
Bo Lidegaard
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Holocaust, Military / World War II, Europe / Scandinavia, Europe / General, Jewish
Publication Year
2013
Genre
History
Number of Pages
416 Pages

Dimensions

Item Length
9.5in
Item Height
1.4in
Item Width
6.6in
Item Weight
28.1 Oz

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Lc Classification Number
D802.D4
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" Countrymen is extraordinary. I will not soon forget this epic of decency, this saga of humanism saving lives. The idea of humanism has been under attack for so long now, as false and sentimental and impotent, as insufficiently radical to make a difference, that it is stirring to be given a grand example of the opposite case--of a clear, muscular, brave, and effective humanism, and in the whole of a society. Bo Lidegaard's moving and meticulous book is itself an expression of the idealism that it documents." -Leon Wieseltier, " Countrymen is extraordinary. I will not soon forget this epic of decency, this saga of humanism saving lives. The idea of humanism has been under attack for so long now, as false and sentimental and impotent, as insufficiently radical to make a difference, that it is stirring to be given a grand example of the opposite case--of a clear, muscular, brave, and effective humanism, and in the whole of a society. Bo Lidegaard's moving and meticulous book is itself an expression of the idealism that it documents." -Leon Wieseltier
Copyright Date
2013
Target Audience
Trade
Dewey Decimal
940.53/1809489
Dewey Edition
23
Illustrated
Yes

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