Glossary

Martial Law- military government involving the suspension of ordinary law.

Georg Ferdinand Duckwitz- He was an attache for Nazi Germany who warned the Danish Jews about their intended deportation during the German Second World War occupation of Denmark in 1943 and arranged for their reception in Sweden.

Concentration camps- a place where large numbers of people, especially political prisoners or members of persecuted minorities, are deliberately imprisoned in a relatively small area with inadequate facilities, sometimes to provide forced labor or to await mass execution.

Aryan- elating to or denoting a people speaking an Indo-European language

Deportation- the action of deporting a foreigner from a country.

Protectorate- a state that is controlled and protected by another.