Hvidsten Group

Marius Fiil, owner of the Hvidsten Inn and leader of the Hvidsten Group, met with Giesler on 12 March 1943 following an SOE drop the night before on Trinderup Heath east of Mariager that had delivered 12 to 14 containers of explosives and weapons to supply the resistance in Jutland.

That evening, Fiil, with the help of his neighbour Andreas Stenz, retrieved the weapons and eventually brought them to Mustard Point, which was chosen by the Hvidsten Group as a receiving site and became one of its most reliable during the resistance effort.

[citation needed] The Hvidsten Group received many drops during the resistance signalled via "greetings" at the end of the BBC news broadcasts with the encoded message "Greetings to Elias - Listen again" and delivered via British Halifax planes.

[2] The following month De frie Danske reported that several arrestees from Hvidsten, including Marius Fiil, had been transferred from Randers to the Vestre Fængsel prison.

Six months later, the January 1945 issue of the resistance newspaper Frit Danmark (Free Denmark) reported that on 29 June the previous year Fiil and seven other named members of the Hvidsten group had been executed.

Memorial stone for the Danish resistance group Hvidstengruppen
Barricades erected during a general strike, Nørrebro , Copenhagen, July 1944
Memorial stone placed in Ryvangen Memorial Park for fallen resistance members including those of the Hvidsten group