Dimensions
130 x 198 x 15mm
The Danish Resistance Movement and the RAF Raid on Gestapo Headquarters, March 1945.
Denmark's situation in World War II was unique. The Danish struggle against German occupation took place against a background of a continuing Danish administration left, mostly, alone by the occupying power; resisting Danes were put into a moral dilemma.
But freedom didn't last, and prominent figures were imprisoned in the Shell building in the centre of Copenhagen. The RAF raid on that building was one of the most difficult and daring low-level daylight raids of the whole war. It was a triumph of planning and daring execution; but, as the result of an accident, it was also a sickening and terrible tragedy. This is an account of the Danish Resistance Movement and the RAF raid on the Copenhagen headquarters of the Gestapo in March 1945.