Denmark’s National Socialist Workers’ Party, DNSAP, was founded by Captain Cay Lembcke on 16 November 1930, two months after Hitler’s large electoral victory. The German occupation of Denmark in April 1940 precipitated an inflow of new members, and the party peaked in March 1943, just before a general election, with approximately 21,500 members, or 0.5 per cent of the population of four million. In Denmark, nazi parties adopted the same programme, but conditions were so vastly different that no easy response could be found in the Danish population. The other nazi arch-enemy, the communists, were just as inconspicuous in Denmark as the Jews. But as the tide of opinion towards Germany turned, so also did that towards Denmark’s native nazis. Denmark was just one in a series of west European countries which started their fascist attempts late, in fascism’s ‘second wave’ of the early and middle 1930s.