Hvidstengruppen

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Hvidstengruppen (English, The Hvidsten Group) was a Danish resistance group during World War 2. It was formed in 1943 and existed until 1944 when it was arrested by the Gestapo. The identity of its members had been revealed by a captured British agent who under torture had revealed what he knew about the group. The group was arrested on March 11, 1944 and on June 26, 1944, eight of its members were sentenced to death and executed on June 29, 1944. The group was named after the tavern where it was formed.

The group was responsible for receiving weapons and explosives dropped by the British over Denmark to be distributed to resistance groups like BOPA and Holger Danske. These air drops were announced using secret code disguised as "greetings" by the British at the end of the special BBC news broadcasts to Denmark during the war.

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• Danish Woman Bibliographic Encyclopedia - Kirstine Fiil (Danish)
• Hvidsten Gruppen (The Hvidsten Group), Axel Holm, 1946, Gravers Andersens Forlag (Danish)
• Kæft, Trit og Retning: En sabotørs erindringer (Silence, Discipline and Direction: The memoirs of a saboteur), Jørgen Røjel, 1998 (ISBN 87-568-1463-1) (Danish)
• Modstandsgruppen Hvidsten (The resistance group Hvidsten), Jørgen Røjel, 1984 (ISBN 87-568-1497-6) (Danish)
• Hvidsten-gruppen som Barner Andersen oplevede den (The Hvidsten Group as Bjarner Andersen experienced it), Peter Laursen, 2002 (ISBN 87-88864-42-1) (Danish)
• No Small Achievement: Special Operations Executive and the Danish Resistance 1940-1945, Knud J. V. Jespersen, 2002, University Press of Southern Denmark