The Rescue of the Danish Jews During World War II By Emmy E.
Werner (212 Pages)Publisher: Westview Press, 2002 The people of
Denmark managed to save almost their country's entire Jewish
population from extermination in a spontaneous act of humanity
one of the most compelling stories of moral courage in the
history of World War II. Drawing on many personal accounts, Emmy
Werner tells the story of the rescue of the Danish Jews from the
vantage point of living eyewitnesses the last survivors of an
extraordinary conspiracy of decency that triumphed in the midst
of the horrors of the Holocaust. A Conspiracy of Decency
chronicles the acts of people of good will from several
nationalities. Among them were the German Georg F. Duckwitz, who
warned the Jews of their impending deportation, the Danes who
hid them and ferried them across the Oresund, and the Swedes who
gave them asylum. Regardless of their social class, education,
and religious and political persuasion, the rescuers all shared
one important characteristic