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WHEN Nazi troops invaded Denmark on April 9 1940, the Danish communists found themselves in a peculiar situation.
Despite the extreme anti-communism of the Nazi regime, Germany had signed a non-aggression pact with the Soviet Union and in addition the Danish government had willingly accepted the occupation and co-operated actively with Germany. Because of this the Nazis took no immediate action against the Danish Communist Party (DKP).
In the DKP it was understood that the party would sooner or later be forced underground. They worked legally for as long as possible, including in the parliament, the Rigsdagen, but after the German assault on the Soviet Union on June 22 1941, illegality was an inevitability.
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