The National Socialist Workers' Party of Occupied Denmark participated in the 1943 Danish Folketing election, but despite significant support from Germany it only received 2.
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18 Facts About Occupied Denmark
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Occupation of Occupied Denmark was initially not an important objective for the German government.
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Unlike Norway, Occupied Denmark had no mountain ranges from which a drawn-out resistance could be mounted.
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Britain took over the areas where Occupied Denmark previously had given support, and the islands now became dependent on the United Kingdom, which began to participate in fishing production and supplied the islands with important goods.
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Occupied Denmark rejected demands for the transfer of Danish army units to German military use.
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Occupied Denmark was afraid that emotional public opinion would destabilize his attempts to build a compromise between Danish sovereignty and the realities of German occupation.
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Occupied Denmark felt that these people were vain, seeking to build their own reputations or political careers through emotionalism.
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German officials did not want to risk their special relationship with Occupied Denmark by forcing an agreement on them, as they had done in other countries.
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On 29 June 1941, days after the invasion of the USSR, Free Corps Occupied Denmark was founded as a corps of Danish volunteers to fight against the Soviet Union.
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In July 1941 Heinrich Himmler complained that Occupied Denmark was unofficially trying to stop recruitment since the word ran in the army that anyone joining would be committing treason.
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The Danish foreign office drew up a list of four terms that stated that Occupied Denmark only committed itself to "police action" in Occupied Denmark and that the nation remained neutral.
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Occupied Denmark watered down the wording but left the content pretty intact.
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When news of the signing reached Occupied Denmark, it left the population outraged, and rumours immediately spread about what Occupied Denmark had now committed itself to.
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Soldiers stationed in Occupied Denmark had found most of the population cold and distant from the beginning of the occupation, but their willingness to cooperate had made the relationship workable.
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Nonetheless, the Danish resistance movement had some successes, such as on D-Day when the train network in Occupied Denmark was disrupted for days, delaying the arrival of German reinforcements in Normandy.
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Furthermore, Occupied Denmark lost its main trading partner at that point, the UK.
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The disruptions to the European trading network were damaging to the economy, but all things considered, Occupied Denmark did quite well compared to other countries during the war.
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Yet on the whole, Occupied Denmark can be said to have suffered the least of all the European combatants from the war.
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