Schalburgtage

Schalburgtage was the popular name for the retaliation which Germans and their Danish collaborators carried out as revenge for resistance activity in the last part of the occupation of Denmark between 1944 and 1945.

The occupying power called it counter-sabotage, but the Danes quickly adopted the name schalburgtage.

This introduced killings of esteemed Danes which occurred when a German soldier or a Danish informant was killed.

These killings were called clearing murders.

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