The Fishing Boats of Denmark

In October 1943, the Nazi regime prepared to round up every Jewish citizen in Denmark — over seven thousand men, women, and children marked for deportation and death. The dragon's jaws were open wide. But a German diplomat named Georg Ferdinand Duckwitz leaked the plans to Danish resistance leaders, and within hours, an entire nation mobilized in secret. Ordinary Danes — fishermen, schoolteachers, ambulance drivers, pastors — hid their Jewish neighbors in attics, church basements, and hospital rooms.…