- Caption
- Page from volume two of a set of scrapbooks compiled by Bjorn Sibbern, a Danish policeman and resistance member, documenting the German occupation of Denmark.
This page includes small pins that were worn as a sign of anti-German sentiment. The intial design copied the RAF emblem.
- Photo Credit
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Ruth Scott
- Event History
- Bjorn Sibbern compiled five scrapbooks documenting the German occupation of Denmark. The books contain photographs, documents and three-dimensional artifacts documenting all aspects of the German occupation of Denmark. Shortly before his death, Mr. Sibbern entrusted the albums to Ruth and Dell Scott who he met through their work in the charitable group, "Thanks to Scandinavia." The organization raises money for Scandinavian students to study in California in gratitude for the Danish rescue of its Jewish population. The scrapbooks are dedicated to the Sibbern's daughter, Lisa, and she agreed with the Scotts that the US Holocaust Memorial Museum was the most appropriate home for the albums.
The Danish police played a major role in support of the Danish resistance movement, and some documents relate directly to Mr. Sibbern's work in the underground. He was in charge of the printing and issuance of false identification cards. There are several examples in the scrapbooks. The albums contain both real and forged cards as well as his forgery stamps. The scrapbooks also contain leaflets dropped over Denmark of Nazi propaganda, anti-Nazi cartoons and photographs of German officials, Danish collaborators, sabotage and demonstrations. Every page is fully annotated in English.
https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/denmark.