Georg Quistgaard Georg Quistgaard ( February 19 , 1915 - May 22 , 1944 ) was one of 102 members of the Danish resistance movement , who were executed following a court - martial . Early life . Georg Brochhoff Quistgaard was born in Copenhagen in 1915 , to Georg B . Quistgaard and Marie Quistgaard , née Breyner . Quistgaard dropped out of high - school and travelled through Europe on foot and bicycle . In Paris , he met Ellen Nielsen , whom he later married . They returned to Denmark , and they opened a small shop of art works in Copehangen , which went out of business in 1940 . Resistance . During the occupation of Denmark Quistgaard and his wife provided support for SOE operatives . On several occasions Quistgaard demanded ( in vain ) that one such operative , an Englishman who had parachute d into Denmark , should be returned as inadequate . During a subsequent interrogation by Gestapo this operative named Quistgaard . On January 13 , 1944 Gestapo arrested Quistgaard in his home ( Abenraa 10 , Copenhagen ) after an exchange of fire and placed him in Vestre Fængsel . His wife was not at home and managed to escape to Sweden , a fact which was later communicated to Quistgaard . On January 28 , 1944 Gestapo arrested Quistgaards mother . The interrogation by Gestapo took place at their headquarters in Dagmarhus . Quistgaards prison diary and letters to his wife and mother indicate that he did not consider himself to be subjected to torture , but rather that there was some element of mutual respect between him and his interrogators . This changed one day when his interrogator proclaimed : " It is up to you alone how long this woman has to remain here " , after which the woman was revealed to be his mother . Quistgaards initial interrogation did in fact include sleep deprivation including one 28 hour interrogation and thinly veiled threats of being beaten with a rubber baton . His mother was released after about two weeks of imprisonment . On March 2 , 1944 Quistgaard was moved with eight others to Schwerin and on April 25 , 1944 he was transferred back to Vestre Fængsel . On May 12 , 1944 Quistgaard was put on trial in front of three judges from the SS as one of twelve members of the resistance . As witnesses the prosecution presented two SOE operatives , known as " Jacob Jensen " and " Bent " . The former incriminated eight of the twelve to the point where they admitted to the charges . Together with three others Quistgaard was condemned to death , with the execution pending any new act of sabotage . On May 20 , 1944 Quistgaard wrote what was to be his last letter , to his mother . It was smuggled out the following day by Jørgen Kieler . On May 22 , 1944 Quistgaard was executed with two of the other three from the trial ( the fourth , a woman , had her sentence changed to life imprisonment , she died in German captivity before the end of the war ) . The news of their execution was brought by the papers the following day . After his death . On August 29 , 1945 Quistgaards remains were reburied at Mindelunden in Ryvangen . In 1946 his prison diary and letters were published , prefaced by Elias Bredsdorff . The royalties from the book were donated to Frihedsfonden . Together with three other fallen members of the resistance Quistgaard is commemorated with a memorial stone on Gyldenløves Høj .