DENMARK ANGERED
POET-PASTOR MURDERED Recd. 9 p.m. London, Jan. 6. The whole of Denmark is angered by the news of the murder of Kaj Munk, poet and pastor, one of the greates Scandinavian dramatists and regarded as the successor to Ibsen. His body was found riddled with revolver bullets in a wood near Silkeborg, Jutland, says the Daily Telegraph’s Stockholm correspondent. The assassins are known to be four Danish Nazis. Kaj Munk, who was 46 years old never ceased to write *and preach against the Nazis and proclaim the cause of freedom. According to the Associated Press Stockholm correspondent, a traveller stated that the Germans banned Munk from preaching in 1942 but removed the ban in November. Munk at Christmas said: “The British and Americans are coming to help the Danes to get rid of the Germans.” The traveller added that German soldiers in Jutland were in a state of alarm. The Danes generally are awaiting the invasion.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 88, Issue 5, 7 January 1944, Page 5
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