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To: AEMILIUS PAULUS

Yes we are and I feel helpless and dumbfounded.


4 posted on 10/17/2015 2:39:14 PM PDT by PROCON (A proud CRUZader.)
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To: PROCON

In the immortal (immoral?) words of Al Sharpton, “Resist we much!”

There was much passive-aggressive resistance in the small country of Denmark during the Second World War, after it was occupied by Nazi Germany. It is said, that in a meeting with Adolf Hitler, King Christian X was warmly greeted by the leader of the Third Reich, who proclaimed, “Now two great Nordic nations may be joined as one!” To which, the King drily replied, “I am much too old to accept the rule of Germany.”

Danes felt a great allegiance to Great Britain, and maintained many clandestine contacts across the North Sea, in fact, spiriting most of their relatively small Jewish population out of the country, including a physicist, Niels Bohr. Dr Bohr was eventually transferred to the US, where he was involved in the theoretical studies that led to the construction of the first atomic weapons. The Bohr family was not originally Jewish, but his mother, Ellen Adler, was Jewish, and that would have been enough of a taint in the eyes of the racial purists to have sent him to a death camp, or at least long-term internment.

While the Danish partisan movement was not nearly as bloody as that of, say, Yugoslavia, or even France, they did an excellent job of espionage and harassment against the occupying Germans, and there never was any level of trust built up between the Danes and Germans during that period. Unlike Quisling Norway or Vichy France, the government never became officially an “ally” of the Third Reich.

We may have to do a lot of low-level resistance, but we never have to feel helpless or dumbfounded.


22 posted on 10/17/2015 3:04:03 PM PDT by alloysteel (Do not argue with trolls. That means they win.)
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