Schalburgtage was the popular name for the retaliation which
Germans and their
Danish collaborators carried out as revenge for resistance activity in the last part of the
occupation of Denmark between 1944 and 1945. The word is partially a reference to
sabotage and partially to the
Schalburg Corps who carried out most of the actions.
The occupying power called it counter-
sabotage, but the Danes quickly adopted the name schalburgtage. In fact, most of the schalburgtage was carried out by the
Peter group, most of whose members were also members of the Schalburg Corps.
Schalburgtage was directed against both the
Danish resistance movement
The Danish resistance movements ( da, Den danske modstandsbevægelse) were an underground insurgency to resist the German occupation of Denmark during World War II. Due to the initially lenient arrangements, in which the Nazi occupation autho ...
and Danish society in general. This introduced killings of esteemed Danes which occurred when a German soldier or a Danish
informant was killed. These killings were called
clearing murders.
See also
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Schalburg Corps
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Sabotage
Denmark in World War II