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Germans “ Frozen Out 99 “ In Copenhagen there is little defiance or open hostility but the atmosphere that surrounds the invaders is definitely icy. While almost everybody in Copenhagen used to speak at least a little German before the invasion, most German officers and soldiers now get nothing but a blank stare and an unresponsive shrug of shoulders if they inquire for their way or try to engage in conversation. On the streets of Copenhagen the German military attract little notice and * no interest whatever; the crowd passes by them, even * looks through them,’ as if they were thin air. If a German officer in the train or street-car rises to offer his seat to a lady, he has a good chance of being rebuffed with an icy ‘no thanks.’ There is a story in Copenhagen of a Nazi captain who complained about his sufferings in various countries: ‘ln Czecho Slovakia, the people spat at me. in Poland they sniped at me. but all this is nothing against Denmark, where I am simply frozen out.”—J. Joesten, in The Fortnightly.
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Waikato Times, Volume 128, Issue 21371, 15 March 1941, Page 8
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182TOPICS OF THE DAY Waikato Times, Volume 128, Issue 21371, 15 March 1941, Page 8
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