Evening star., 1943-05-22
BY BLAIR BOLLES,
Star STAR CorresponAe Aept

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STOCKHOLM. May % by Wire
less The Germans are building q
large city in the western portion OF
thinly- populated Jutland as refu-
gee place for favored Nazis from
bombings, according to reliable in
formation here. 1t is planned tc
accommodate more than 100000
The city is going up in a part OF
Denmark where even the Danes
are required to have special pass
ports to visit. Jutland. a big Nazi
encampment. is being transformed
into Arm bastion in the long AT
lantic Wall" which Hitler is rein
forcing from North Cape to Frances
Spanish border.
Denmark has been bombed by the
British only once in the past year
The Nazis have given the Danes
gentle treatment in a vain effort to
win their friendship and display the
country as the new order model. The
Danes are permitted to listen to
foreign broadcasts.
A visitor in Sweden can stand In
the old city of Halsingborg and
clearly see the Danish bluffs across
the Oresund, less than three miles
wide. The green copper roof of
Hamlet's castle Kronberg at Shake
speare's Elsinore glints in the sun
The ferry takes only 20 minutes to
cross from Halsingbore to Elsinore
Helmeted Swedish soldiers. pre-
pared to resist German invasion
guard the ferry dock behind wide
barriers OF barbed wire Foreigners
OF course, are forbidden passage on
/ the boat whose destina ton is a
azi-occupied country German sol
| dlers guard the dock on the Danish
side and patrol the shore to prevent
Danes fleeing by swimming. Some
escape.
But the Danes in Denmark eat
better than the Swedes. They get
almost three times the meat. Shoe
purchases in Sweden are limited to
one pair each person every 1a
months. but all the shoes desired
are purchaseable in Copenhagen
No food or clothing is rationed
there. although the Germans are
appealing for clothing inside Ger
many.
No Curfew in Copenhagen.
Night life in Copenhagen is about
as extensive as neutral Stockholm S
mild after dark public gayety.
Dancing there halts at II pm. and
restaurants close at midnight. The
same is true in Stockholm There is
no curfew in Copenhagen, but a
nightly blackout,
The great trial in Danish life Is
the limit on the amount of cooking
gas available-700 liters a day. The
Danes cook all the food possible at
one time in order to get the fullest
advantage from the gas. Much cold
food is eaten.
Gershwin's operetta, "Porsv and
Bess,' is opening in Copenhagen
this week. People flock to concerts.
1t is possible to obtain there trans
latlons OF American books. although
only Axis or neutral movies are per-
mltted. Few German soldiers are
to be seen in Copenhagen. Super
flclallv life goes on there with little
sign that Denmark is a country in
thralldom Of the Third Reich.
The Danes themselves have no
adequate explanation for this pref
erentlal treatment except that the
local German occupation authorities
prefer this easy wav. Reichsmin-
lister Werner Best. chief Nazi ciyilia n
representative in Denmark. recently
visited Norway to see the IRON
handed methods there. He returned
to Denmark with the comment he
was thankful he did not have to
enforce the Norwegian system.
Germans Drain Resources.
German stealing OF Danish wealth
is constant drain on agricultural
economy in country which used to
supply Britain butter, cheese. bacon
and hams. The Nazi debt to Den
mark now is recorded at l3 billion
crowns which the Danes never ex-
pect to receive. The Nazis take
hogs. cattle and their products.
The Danish foreign office and
German occupiers spread propa- :
ganda against DR.. Henrik de Kauff
mann. Danish Minister to Wash
ington. for his signing the treaty
according the United States occupa-
ton rights in the Danish colony of
Greenland during the war. The
on1cial line is that Denmark will
never get Greenland back and this
tempers Danish faith in America.
Apparently many Danes are ig-
norant that DR.. de Kaufman
guarded their interests in Green
land when the discovery was made
that the island was being used as
q North Atlantic weather station
for the Nazis. The foreign oflice in
Copenhagen insists on the fiction
that 1t is q free agent and its orders
to DR.. de Kaufman to withdraw
the Greenland agreement were
Danish and not German inspired
The Danes are well informed on
most contemporary subjects be-
cause Of listening to the radio, fire.
quent droppings Of newspapers from
British planes, and a remarkably
free press Of their own. Danish le-
gal newspapers printed resumes OF
Allied communiques during the Tu-
nisian campaign. Twenty-fou Sc
cret newspapers are published in