In 1951, he and his partner Bent Faurschou Hviid were posthumously awarded the United States Medal of Freedom by President Harry S.

[4] Schmith tried several vocations before he turned 26, including working on a coal boat, training in a hardware store, and farming.

Citroën was a German company, and Schmith sabotaged the cars brought in for servicing by pouring sand powder in the carriage bearing and sugar into the fuel.

[4][5] Following the German invasion, Schmith was a Danish resistance fighter, joining the Holger Danske group in the spring of 1943.

He was involved in sabotage, rescuing Danish refugees, and liquidating (of informers or otherwise risky people)[3] in Copenhagen.

[2][5] Schmith worked with Bent Faurschou Hviid, a fellow resistance operative who was given the code name Flame for his red hair.

Citronen (The Lemon) was said to be fantastically daring, extremely fast in his reactions, and completely merciless when it was a matter of carrying out a dangerous mission.

The other was his friend, Flammen.’[6]Schmith was picked up at a roadblock in Copenhagen by a member of the Danish Nazi group Schalburg Corps on 19 September 1944.

[4] At about midnight, two men entered the house, a German man pointed a machine gun at Christensen's chest.

She made it out safely, but her cover was blown when the soldiers later found fake identification information in her purse that had been left in Strøm-Tejsen's house.

")[4] In 1951, Schmith and Bent Faurschou Hviid (Flame) were posthumously awarded the United States Medal of Freedom by President Harry Truman.