VI_XII (@VI_XII)

"One phone call. That was all it took. On September 28th, 1943, a German official in Copenhagen read a telex from Berlin: within four days, every Jew in Denmark — roughly 7,000 people — was to be arrested in a single night and shipped east. The ships were already waiting in the harbor. The addresses were already on file. Four days later, SS units moved through Copenhagen to every address on that list. They broke down doors. They searched apartment after apartment. And they found almost nothing — empty rooms, unmade beds, coats still hanging by the door. In Poland, in France, in the Netherlands, operations like this caught 70 to 99 percent of their targets. In Denmark, the SS caught less than 7 percent, and no one on the German side could explain why. But that phone call was only the beginning. The real answer runs from a German shipping attaché's desk to the fishing docks of Copenhagen to a strait five kilometers wide — and to a Nazi Party member since 1932 who spent the rest of his life never once calling himself a hero. Seven thousand people. Ninety-six hours. One phone call he was absolutely not supposed to make. What he risked is not what you'd expect from a man wearing that uniform. And what happened in the following four days is something the SS never had an answer for." #worldwar2 #ww2 #holocaust #ww2stories #denmark #filedunderfire The German Official Who Warned Denmark's Jews — And Why the SS Found Empty Houses - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U06wMNqeLzY