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When Germany occupied Denmark on April 9, 1940, the Jewish population was approximately 7,500. After having occupied Denmark for three and a half years, Nazi leader Adolf Hitler ordered the Germans to round up Danish Jews on the night of Oct. 1, 1943, which was Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year. Instead, due to the collective effort of the Danish underground and ordinary citizens, a total of 8,007 Jews were smuggled out of Denmark and across the sea to nearby neutral Sweden. Another 460 Jews who were rounded up, were sent to the Theresienstadt concentration camp in Czechoslovakia; 400 of these persons survived to return to their Danish homeland at the end of the war.
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