Danish Freedom Council

However, Danish acts of sabotage caused the Germans to harden their response, arresting those involved.

By August 1943, the situation had become so bad, that the Germans sent the Danish government an ultimatum — they were to declare a state of emergency and they were to condemn to death all captured saboteurs.

The Germans responded by formally seizing power and, legally, Denmark became an "occupied country", adding to the legitimacy of the Danish Resistance.

Anti-Nazi sentiment sharpened further when the Germans attempted to arrest the Danish Jews in October 1943.

[3] In December that year, the SOE sent orders that military groups should be organised, ready to attack the Germans in case of invasion.

Though the D-Day landings were to be in Normandy, the SOE encouraged tying up German troops elsewhere in Europe so that the fewer would be present in northern France.