When we think of the resistance during the Second World War,

we usually think of furtive resistance fighters hiding in the shadows,

blowing up railroad tracks, or sending clandestine reports to London via a portable radio.

But there were other kinds of resistance.

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I'm Episode 404, The Other Resistance.

From September 1, 1939,

till where we are right now in the podcast chronology, roughly August 1943,

Germany invaded a total of 10 European nations. Eleven, if you count the occupation of the

Channel Islands as an invasion of the United Kingdom, and hey, why not? Every one of these 11 nations resisted the German invaders, with one exception.

Every one of the governments of the eight nations that were defeated and occupied by the Germans

fled their homelands and became governments in exile, with two exceptions.

One of these two exceptions is France. The French

government continued to rule unoccupied France from Vichy, though there was Charles de Gaulle in his

free French movement, which was something like a competing government in exile. The other nation, the one that neither resisted the Germans nor sent its

government out of the country, was Denmark. I told you about Operation Vezer Ubung in episode 320, which

included the occupation of Denmark. The tiny Danish military resisted for a few hours

until King Christian X accepted a German proposal

under which Denmark would not resist a German occupation,

while Germany in return would respect Danish sovereignty over its domestic affairs. Thus, the Danish king remained in

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