The Bellboy Who Executed 22 Nazi Collaborators To Avenge His Friend Tortured To Death By The SS

#Flammen #DanishResistance #HolgerDanske On the night of the 18th of October 1944, in a quiet seaside villa north of Copenhagen, a 23-year-old man with hair so red that every description of him began with it sat down on a stranger's bed. The Gestapo had surrounded the house with more than fifty men. He had no gun — only a glass capsule of cyanide he had carried in his breast pocket for two years. He folded his jacket over a chair, sat down, and bit down. Then he smiled at the German officer in the doorway. A witness three feet away spent the next seventy years trying to decide what that smile meant. This documentary tells the story of Bent Faurschou Hviid — codenamed Flammen, the Flame — the most hunted resistance fighter in occupied Denmark, and of his partner Jørgen Haagen Schmith, codenamed Citronen. Together, the shooter and the driver carried out the deadliest liquidation partnership of the Danish resistance, while also ferrying Jewish families and Allied airmen across the Øresund to safety in Sweden. From a hotel boy on the north coast of Zealand who shot the weathervane off his father's roof at the age of nine, to the apprentice who stood at the back of a Frankfurt hall listening to Goebbels, to the man who killed twenty-two collaborators and informers and refused every chance to flee to a safe shore he could see across the water — this is the story of why two young men decided that the resistance was simply "the work that needed to be done," and paid for it with their lives three days apart. 🔥 In this video: The Flame and the Lemon: How a shooter and a Citroën mechanic became the deadliest partnership in Holger Danske. The Willing Not to Imagine: The mental discipline that let a 22-year-old walk into a café and pull the trigger. Jægersborg Allé: Citronen's last stand in striped pyjamas against 200 German soldiers. The Empty Hour: The final day — a silver hairbrush, a sleepless walk through Copenhagen, and a quiet dinner before the knock. The Smile: The capsule, the bed, and the one unanswerable question of the Danish resistance. Sources of Where I get my facts: Knudsen, P.Ø. (2005) *After the Killing: The Truth About the Resistance's Liquidations*. Copenhagen: Gyldendal. Lidegaard, B. (2013) *Countrymen: The Untold Story of How Denmark's Jews Escaped the Nazis*. New York: Alfred A. Knopf. Sode-Madsen, H. (1995) *Flammen og Citronen: Holger Danske og den danske modstandsbevægelse*. Copenhagen: Aschehoug. Dyrberg, G. (1970) *The Resistance: A Memoir of Holger Danske*. Copenhagen: Samleren. Lampe, D. (1957) *The Savage Canary: The Story of Resistance in Denmark*. London: Cassell. Disclaimer: This video is a historical documentary intended for educational purposes. #Flammen #DanishResistance #HolgerDanske #Citronen #WWII #Denmark #Copenhagen #ResistanceHistory #Occupation