Kamis, 14 September 2017

The Kindness of Strangers

How thousands of Danes —and one brave German—defined the Nazis to rescue Denmark’s Jews. “I know what I have to do,” the man wrote in his diary. But even the prospect of what Georg Ferdinand Duckwitz had to do that day, Sept- ember 28, 1943, would have left many lesser men petrified with fear. For …

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