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Jews FleeDenmarkTo SwedenStockholm {JPi — Hundreds of Jews who preferred to risk being shot to death by German patrols along the Danish coast rather than be deported to Nazi labor camps poured into Sweden yesterday as Adolf Hitler's anti-Semitic purge in Denmark fanned Swedish feeling.Skirmishes and bloodshed were reported when a few Jews resisted arrest in Copenhagen, and others were pursued through - Jutland by squads of Gestapo men.The deportation of Danish Jews to Germany and Poland started from Copenhagen * Saturday as the Nazis ignored, at least temporarily, a Swedish government offer to provide for the 8,000 of the 10,000 Jews whom the Germans blamed for the militant opposition to German occupation of what once was Hitler's “model protectorate.Carrying only small bundles of personal* belongings, many Jews arrived in Sweden in rowboats and fishing smacks after eluding the reinforced German patrols which wen* ordered to shoot anyone trying to escape.The Swedish government predicted in a formal note to the German foreign office in Berlin that “serious repercussions would be felt in Sweden, and feeling ran high, especially in southern Sweden which oncewas a part of Denmark.The Swedish government offer toaccept the deportees did not include 2.000 Jews who fled Germany, Austria and 'Other countries and obtained refuge in Denmark early in the war.
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Troy Record
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Mon, Oct 04, 1943
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