Deportation of the Danish police

As a result, a large number of members of the Danish police force were deported to Nazi concentration camps in Germany.

This applied to all civil servants, including the entire Danish police force, which began cooperation with its German counterparts.

The German army began arresting members of the Danish police in Denmark's main cities on 19 September 1944.

On 16 December, following pressure from the Danish administration, 1604 men were transferred from Buchenwald to Mühlberg (Stammlager or Stalag IV-B), a camp for prisoners of war POWs.

That meant an improvement in the situation for the Danish policemen; POWs had some kind of protection due to international conventions, while inmates in concentration camps did not.

Simultaneously with the Danish negotiations, the Swedish count Folke Bernadotte intended to get all Scandinavian concentration camp prisoners to Sweden.