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A Conspiracy of Decency: The Rescue of the Danish Jews During World War II, by Emmy E. Werner. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 2002. 204 pp. $26.00.

The events of October 1943 in occupied Denmark constitute one of the most enduringly compelling stories of the Second World War. Over a period of several weeks, a massive popular effort led by the Danish resistance managed to save almost all of the nation's Jews from a German effort to capture and deport them. The story has bee...

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