Hvidsten group
The Hvidsten Group was a Danish resistance group during World War II . The name comes from the Gasthaus Hvidsten kro between Randers and Mariager in Jutland , whose host Marius Fiil founded the group.
history
The group received weapons and explosives that Halifax planes of the British Royal Air Force dropped over Denmark in order to then forward them to other resistance groups such as Borgerlige Partisans (BOPA) and Holger Danske . The drops were announced using secret codes disguised as "greetings" on the BBC's Danish news program broadcast during the war.
The Hvidsten group was founded in 1943 and existed until 1944, when its members were arrested by the Gestapo after a captured British agent revealed information about the group under torture .
The news of the arrest of the group members was reported in the resistance newspaper De frie Danske on March 18, 1944 . The following month it was also reported that the innkeeper Marius Fiil had been transferred to Vestre prison in Copenhagen along with other resistance fighters from Hvidsten von Randers .
Eight members of the group were sentenced to death and executed in Ryvangen on June 29, 1944 by the German occupying forces . The news of this led to the extension of the Copenhagen people's strike to a general strike, as a result of which a terror and sabotage decree was issued.
Movie
The story of the Hvidsten Group was made into a film in 2012. With over 750,000 viewers, Hvidsten Gruppen (The Hvidsten Group) was the most viewed film in Danish cinemas that year. When the Hamburg Film Festival , the film won the Audience Award.
See also
Web links
- The Hvidsten Group - Randers municipality website
Individual evidence
- ↑ Kim Kastrup: Tyskerne græd over Hvidstengruppen In Ekstra Bladet , October 8, 2012