ABSTRACT

Denmark may not have had the largest Nazi Party in occupied Europe, but it certainly had the largest number of radical right-wing organizations. Adolf Hitler's rise to power appears to have revived a sense of German-ness among many of the Volksdeutsche both in Denmark and elsewhere. Of all the moves made by the expediency minded Danish government, nothing infuriated the Allies more than the signing of the Anti-Comintern Pact in the autumn of 1941 which was aimed directly at the Soviet Union. The Danish Foreign Minister went so far as to enjoin a 'policy of negotiation', and this was endorsed by other Danish officials. The Danes were consequently informed that they were to reorganize their cabinet so that it would be more conducive to Nazi policy. Danish Jews were relatively untroubled by the Nazis, something quite unknown in the other occupied territories.