Cecilie Felicia Stokholm Banke on Kunskapskanalen Cecilie Felicia Stokholm Banke, Senior Researcher at the Department for Holocaust and Genocide Studies will participate in a programme aired on Kunskapskanalen on Swedish Television with the writer P.O. Enquist, about the Danish policy on cooperation, new interpretations of the resistance and Denmark during World War II. The programme is shown on Sunday, 16 October 2005 at 9 pm. With license to kill(From the website of Kunskapskanalen) The Danish resistance movement killed around 400 suspected German collaborators during World War II. Even after the end of the war, the Danish authorities have tried to keep the activities of the resistance a secret, and no official white books have been produced on the liquidations. 55 years later, a range of former members of the resistance have stepped forward to speak openly about the executions. In this documentary hitherto unknown aspects of the struggle against the German occupying power which was not always as heroic as usually presented. The heritage of the resistance movement Presently, a new generation of Danish historians and journalists is re-evaluating the official history about World War II. The struggle against the German occupying power was belatedly begun and for a long time, the Danes cooperated with the German Nazis. The Danish historian Cecilie Banke and the writer P.O. Enquist debate the shadows which the resistance movement cast over post-war Denmark. |
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