Mike Hudack is a tumblelog.

Without the recalcitrant Danish government to impede them, Denmark’s German occupiers began planning the deportation to Nazi concentration camps of the 8,000 or so Jews in Denmark. On September 28, 1943, Georg Ferdinand Duckwitz, a German diplomat, after secretly making sure Sweden would receive Jewish refugees, leaked word of the plans for the operation against Denmark’s Jews to Hans Hedtoft, chairman of the Danish Social Democratic Party.