Thks in advance, and great work!
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the Jews were not treated as harshly by the Danes prewar as they were in much of the rest of Europe and especially Germany. In fact, Many of the Jewish population of Denmark (upwards of 90%) was evacuated to Sweden after the Germans began their invasion of Denmark. Those who could not escape and were captured by the Germans still were given near preferential treatment over other nations Jews due to a deal of cooperation made between the Danish and German governments along with the Danish surrender. A class I was a part of in highschool was lucky enough to be visited by Steen Metz a few years back who was a Jewish Danish survivor of the Thereisenstadt camp in Czechoslovakia. He recalled that there were many other children he played with that would suddenly not be in the camp anymore while he still remained. The reason for this was his Danish nationality, where Czech and other Slavic Jews had “preference” for being sent to the extermination camps over Danes. Although it was still very difficult there for every inhabitant of the camp no matter your nationality as many, including Steen Metz father, were starved or worked to death.
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