No Jews were deported from Denmark. How did they manage that?
“No Jews were deported from Denmark. How did they manage that?”
That’s a common myth. About 500 Danish Jews were deported to the Theresienstadt ghetto, for instance: https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/theresienstadt-red-cross-visit
The right way to say it is that 90% of Danish Jews survived the Nazi conquest of Denmark. Some Jews were in fact deported. Those who were not deported usually escaped by boat to Sweden.
Why did such a high percentage survive?
1) The Germans had a relatively light occupation of Denmark for the first three years. The comparative gentleness of the occupation was actually the result of negotiation: http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/1538564/1/Danish-Reactions-to-German-Occupation.pdf
2) The relative small number of Jews in Denmark meant they were somewhat overlooked for 3 years.
3) When the Danes discovered that their Jews were going to be deported they rallied and found ways to help them escape by boat to Sweden or to hide them on country farms. This was not really possible in Holland.
Some Swedish sea captains took advantage of the Jews to extort money from them: https://tinyurl.com/y3fz3bxj