Gert Petersen

Gert Verner Petersen (19 August 1927 – 1 January 2009)[1] was a journalist and politician who helped found and represent the Socialist People's Party in Denmark.

In 1940 at the age of 13, Gert Petersen was a member of the youth movement of the Nazi National Socialist Workers' Party of Denmark for ten months, as he changed his political views.

From 1943, he was an active member of the Danish resistance movement but was eventually captured by the Gestapo in 1944 and incarcerated in the Frøslev Camp until the end of the German occupation of Denmark.

Thus his influence was not limited to the Socialist People's Party but reached wide parts of the Danish left wing.

His membership of the youth wing of the National Socialist Workers' Party of Denmark was first publicly known in 1977, where the controversial author Erik Haaest revealed Petersen's Nazi past.