Skagen, Denmark

ID: 473 ~ Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Skagen_rooftops.jpg ~ Creator: John Nuttall ~ Date: 2017
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The picturesque town of Skagen was both a popular vacation spot and launch point for boats carrying Jews from Denmark to Sweden during the Nazi occupation of Denmark.

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By Gitte Toben
"The Final Solution was getting closer. Some of their Jewish friends needed to be in Sweden, and they were also in this rowing club, so...when you’re young, and the dopamine hasn’t set in in the mid-brain, to fool the Gestapo at the pier would…