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Sixth Floor: The Danish Resistance Movement and the RAF Raid on Gestapo Headquarters March 1
Sixth Floor The Danish Resistance Movement and the RAF Raid on Gestapo Headquarters March 1 Author:Robin Reilly Denmark's situation in the Second World War 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... more » 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« less