num_pages: 237
description: After Adolph Hitler made plans to create a model protectorate out of Denmark Winston Churchill predicted the nation would become the Fuhrers tame canary. Isolated from the Allies and fueled only by a sense of human decency and national pride the Danes created an extraordinary resistance movement that proved a relentless thorn in the Nazis side. German troops were stymied again and again by the sabotage of railways and airbases and some 7000 Jews were carried to safety in Sweden. They were not soldiersthey were simply ordinary citizens who refused to stand idly by and witness an atrocity. The story of their selfless courage and daring should inspire countless future generations.
language: English
title: Hitler's Savage Canary: A History of the Danish Resistance in World War II
publisher: Barnsley, S. Yorkshire : Frontline Books ; New York : Skyhorse Pub.