DANISH DRAMATIST MURDERED
ACTIVITIES AGAINST NAZIS
LONDON, Jan. 6. The whole of Denmark is angered by the news of the murder of Kaj Munk, poet and pastor and one of the greatest Scandinavian dramatists, who was regarded as a successor to Ibsen. His body was found riddled with revolver bullets in a wood near Silkeborg in Jutland, states the Stockholm correspondent of the “Daily Telegraph.’’ The assassins are known to be four Danish Nazis. Munk, who was aged 46, had never ceased to write and preach against the Nazis and proclaim the cause of freedom.
According to the Stockholm correspondent of the Associated Press, a traveller said that the Germans had banned Munk preaching in 1942 but they removed the ban in November. Munk, at Christmas, said that the British and Americans were coming to help the Danes to get rid of the Germans.
The traveller added that German soldiers in Jutland are in a state ot alarm. The Danes, generally, are awaiting an invasion.
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Press, Volume LXXX, Issue 24150, 8 January 1944, Page 8
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