DANISH COUP

Evening Star, Issue 25225, 12 July 1944, Page 6

DANISH COUP

NAZIS " PERFORM " FOR CINEMA In a recent despatch of Norman MacDonald's, broadcast on short waves by the 8.8. C., the story of a daring Danish coup was revealed. It described how on the previous Sunday night performances at 20 of Copenhagen's leading cinemas were suddenly interrupted. Then the puzzled audience found itself watching a British film caricaturing Hitler and other Nazi leaders. They marched to and fro on the screen and did familiar Nazi acrobatics to the tune of the ' Lamibeth Walk.' Once the people in the cinema grasped the situation they laughed hilariously. When recorded anti-Nazi speeches accompanied the picture their enthusiasm increased. When this unscheduled performance came to an end the cinema showing German films had to close down. t What had happened was that Danish patriots had forced an entry into the projector rooms and compelled the operators to substitute the anti-Nazi film. When the patriots departed they took with them tho reels of the German film. None of the patriots was caught. As a reprisal the Germans ordered all cinemas in the Danish capital to shut.