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  • king christian

    king christian
    king christian reined over denmark
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    Germany WWII

    Germany - before, during, and after WWII
  • danish resistance

    People joined the danish resistance to help Jews and get informasion to people who dont know what is going on.
  • The search

    Germans started to search for Jews.
  • new year

    In 2014 the Jewish new year begins.
  • Jewish refugees flee

    About 1,500 Jewish refugees fled to Denmark.
  • Tivoli Gardens

    Tivoli Gardens
    Tivoli Gardens was burned and bombed by the Germans who had destroyed the gardens.
  • Denmark's king

    King Christian rode around Denmark.
  • Jews lost citizenship

    German Jews lost their citizenship and marriages forbidden between Germans and Jews.
  • restrictions

    Germans occupied the rail system, the government and the hospitals.
  • Synogogues burned

    Synogogues burned
    One thousand synogogues were burned. Thousands of Jewish businesses were looted and 30,000 Jews were arrested.
  • Germans occupied Denmark

    The former German ambassador to Denmark warned his superiors back in Berlin that it would be dangerous to limit the civil rights of Danish Jews in any way
  • occupied

    Denmark surrendered to Germany.
  • Final solution

    Senior officails of the German government met to devise a solution to the Jewish question. These men dicided that Jews would be transported to concentration camps were they would be worked to death or put in gas chambers
  • Dane's sink their Navy

    Dane's sink their Navy
    Danes sank there own navy when Germans were approching.
  • relocated

    Jews were being relocated frome their churches.
  • dog use

    German soldiers used dogs to sniff Jews whereever they were.
  • Jewish population shrinks

    More than seven thousand Jews were smuggled across to Sweden and almost the whole Jewish population was transported.
  • cocane and rabbit's blood

    Scientists used cocane and rabbit's blood to make search dogs lose their smell.
  • King's death

    King Christian died in 1947.
  • escaping Jews

    escaping Jews
    Hitler had found out that Jews were escaping but did not know where.