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Much of the Lorenzen group fled on May 4, 1945 to a cottage in Asserbo in
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(in Danish) {{Danish Nazi collaborationism World War II sabotage Danish collaborators with Nazi Germany Paramilitary organizations based in Denmark
Danish
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: ''Lorenzengruppen'') was an armed paramilitary
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group of Danish
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collaborators, subordinate to the HIPO Corps
The HIPO Corps (Danish: HIPO-korpset) was a Danish auxiliary police corps, established by the German Gestapo on 19 September 1944, when the Danish civil police force was disbanded and most of its officers were arrested and deported to concentrat ...
, which was active during the period December 1944 - May 1945.
The group is named after its founder Jørgen Lorenzen, who in 1944 began service in the Nazi German
Nazi Germany (lit. "National Socialist State"), ' (lit. "Nazi State") for short; also ' (lit. "National Socialist Germany") (officially known as the German Reich from 1933 until 1943, and the Greater German Reich from 1943 to 1945) was ...
secret police and created the group as section 9c to the HIPO Corps. The group were ordered mainly to fight 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 ...
.
The group performed numerous murders and accounted for 600-800 arrests of suspected resistance fighters and often took advantage of torture.
Much of the Lorenzen group fled on May 4, 1945 to a cottage in Asserbo in Nordsjælland
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. Here they were planning to wait for daily life to return to normal in Denmark. A group of 19 men and women were discovered, however, and local resistance fighters with homemade armoured vehicles arrested the group after a heavy shelling of the cottage. Under fire, 2 were killed, 1 committed suicide, 5 were seriously wounded, while the remaining 11 survived with minor injuries.
10 of its members were sentenced to death after the war, including the leader Jørgen Lorenzen who was executed May 10, 1949. Six of these death sentences were however reduced to life imprisonment. The last imprisoned members of the group were released in 1959.
See also
*Peter group
The Peter group ( Danish: ''Petergruppen'') was a paramilitary group created in late 1943 during the occupation of Denmark by the German occupying power. The group conducted counter-sabotage, also known as Schalburgtage, in response to the Dani ...
, pro–German Danish terrorist group
*Milice française
The ''Milice française'' (French Militia), generally called ''la Milice'' (literally ''the militia'') (), was a political paramilitary organization created on 30 January 1943 by the Vichy regime (with German aid) to help fight against the Fr ...
, Vichy French paramilitary group
*Security Battalions
The Security Battalions ( el, Τάγματα Ασφαλείας, Tagmata Asfaleias, derisively known as ''Germanotsoliades'' (Γερμανοτσολιάδες) or ''Tagmatasfalites'' (Ταγματασφαλίτες)) were Greek Collaboration with ...
, Greek pro-German paramilitary group
References
*External links
Webpage about the Lorenzen group
(in Danish) {{Danish Nazi collaborationism World War II sabotage Danish collaborators with Nazi Germany Paramilitary organizations based in Denmark