Polish-Jewish Relations: 1,300 Keyword-Phrase-Indexed Book Reviews (by Jan Peczkis)

The Giant-Killers: The Story of the Danish Resistance Movement 1940-1945, by John Oram Thomas. 1975. Taplinger Publishing Company, New York

The Ignored Danish Collaborators: An Answer to the Jews

Jews commonly glorify the “wonderful Danes” for rescuing Jews, and are deafeningly silent about Danes who worked with Germans against Jews. At the same time, they dump on the Poles for alleged “complicity in the Holocaust.” This book provides a bit of a corrective.

To begin with, only about 1% of all Danes, and certainly not the “entire Danish nation”, was involved in the much-hyped rescue of Jews. See:

https://www.jewsandpolesdatabase.org/2022/12/15/danes-and-poles-danish-jew-rescue-iconoclasm-jews-effectively-released-by-the-nazis-the-farcical-entire-danish-nation-rescued-jews-line-less-than-1-did-paulsson/

THE IGNORED DANISH COLLABORATORS WERE A GREATER DANGER TO THE “JEW RESCUE” THAN THE GERMANS THEMSELVES!

Thomas writes, “As long as operations were concerned solely with the evacuation of the Jews the Germans were surprisingly quiescent. Many of the German army and navy officers and harbor officials disapproved of the purge and made little more than token opposition to the transports. The really dangerous people were the Gestapo, the Danish traitors, and the paid informers who infested the Swedish harbors.” (pp. 125-126). If the Germans intentionally released the Jews, the quiescence makes perfect sense. For more demythologizing of the Danish Jew rescue, see:

https://www.jewsandpolesdatabase.org/2023/12/14/the-fantastic-danish-jew-rescue-big-reasons-scherner/

MOTIVES OF THE IGNORED DANISH COLLABORATORS

Thomas comments, “The menace of the stikkers [tattlers] grew ever more serious…The motives of these and other traitors differed. Some–the more understandable, if no less culpable–were of German descent or had German family connections. Some had been members of the Danish Nazi Party long before the occupation, while others were convinced that Germany would win the war and hoped by treachery to secure their own futures. Most, however, were activated solely by greed and were prepared to sell anybody for a handful of kroner.” (p. 142). In other words, the Danish collaborators were neither better nor worse than Polish collaborators, but of course the Jews overemphasize Polish collaborators and hardly ever talk about the Danish collaborators. Is this an agenda, or what?

SOME DANISH FIRMS SOUGHT TO PROFIT FROM THE IMPENDING MURDERS OF THE JEWS

Thomas adds that, “There was also clear proof that some Danish businessmen had informed on Jews and anti-German competitors in order to take over the agencies they held. There were applications from Danish firms to be appointed suppliers to Germany and to the Wehrmacht in Denmark…The whole of the correspondence, including that of the five thousand compromised firms, is now deposited in the Danish official archives, where it has been placed on the ‘secret list’ for fifty years because of its dangerous–and too numerous–disclosures of un-Danish activities during the occupation.” (p. 167)

And yet all we hear from the Jews is about the Poles who “benefitted” from the German-caused disappearance of the Jews. This sort of selective indignation smells of the Holocaust Industry.