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Hello, welcome to The Rest is History, and we are ripping our way through the 32

countries that are participating in the World Cup in Qatar. And Dominic, today we are

coming to Denmark. And Denmark, of course, has already, we've already had a

football tournament inspired episode on Denmark, haven't we? Because last,

some of the four last during the year, we England ended up playing against Denmark in

what was it, the semi-finals, I think. And so we did an episode on Anglo-Danish relations

over the course of the centuries. But today we're looking at a distinct, and I have to say,

a very noble moment in Danish history. So what if you chose and to represent Denmark?

Well, lots of people would anticipate that when we're doing a podcast on Denmark, we would do

something to do with the Vikings. And I've gone to completely the opposite end of the spectrum.

We are in the 20th century, and we are doing what's almost a first for The Rest is History,

Tom, because we are doing what is, I think we can say, safely say, is an almost entirely good

new story, because most historical stories end with everybody dying, don't they?

Yeah. And when they're packed with incident, that basically means there's an awful lot of

fighting or something of that ilk. But this is a story in which people actually,

and some very surprising people behave really rather well. So the story is the rescue of the Danish

Jews. And during the Second World War, during the Second World War, and we'll start with Denmark

right at the beginning of the Second World War. So the Second World War breaks out as everybody

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