{"id":2360,"date":"2026-05-26T08:48:17","date_gmt":"2026-05-26T06:48:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fkdanmark.simsoft.dk\/litteratur_og_kilder\/books-related-to-the-participation-of-danish-volunteers-in-world-war-ii\/"},"modified":"2026-05-26T08:48:17","modified_gmt":"2026-05-26T06:48:17","slug":"books-related-to-the-participation-of-danish-volunteers-in-world-war-ii","status":"publish","type":"litteratur_og_kilder","link":"https:\/\/fkdanmark.simsoft.dk\/en\/litteratur_og_kilder\/books-related-to-the-participation-of-danish-volunteers-in-world-war-ii\/","title":{"rendered":"Books related to the participation of Danish volunteers in World War II."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Over time, a great deal has been written about World War II and Danish participation, but it was not until after 1975 that the subject received serious academic treatment and the first documentary-style books saw the light of day. In the past five years, larger and much more in-depth books on the subject have been published, some of which are purely documentary in nature. Below is a selection of these books:  <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Occupation-period facts, a documentary handbook: The Bar Association, J.H. Schultz Publishing, 1946. A comprehensive reference work. <\/li>\n<li>Danish Heroes \u2013 Letters from Danish volunteers on the Eastern Front: Nielsen, Klaus, The National Publishing House \u2013 Copenhagen, 1941.<\/li>\n<li>Danish Deeds on the Eastern Front \u2013 The Book about Frikorps Denmark: Published during the war. Petersen, Aage Nordahl. An SS soldier recounts Frikorps Denmark\u2019s battles on the Eastern Front.  <\/li>\n<li>Danish Nazism 1930\u201345: J. T. Lauridsen, Gyldendal Publishing.<\/li>\n<li>Danish soldiers in combat on the Eastern Front 1941\u20131945: Krabbe, Oluf, Bogans Publishing, 1998. A former Danish SS officer recounts the participation of Danes on the Eastern Front. <\/li>\n<li>Danish soldier in war and peace: L\u00e6rum, Erik, Forlaget Kultur og Politik, 1955. Erik L\u00e6rum\u2019s account of his experiences as an artillery officer in Regiment Danmark on the Eastern Front. <\/li>\n<li>Denmark during the Second World War, volumes 1\u201333: B\u00f8rge Outze. 1962\u201368.<br \/>Denmark under the Occupation I + II + III: Dr. phil. Wilhelm Cour, Westermann, 1947. A reference work.   <\/li>\n<li>The Danish Eastern Front volunteers: Schou, S\u00f8ren, Svenson, 1981. About a selection of Danish volunteers\u2019 autobiographies. <\/li>\n<li>Enemy Territory: The Soviet Union from the Inside Out: Nielsen, Erik Herl\u00f8v, Modus, 1995. Erik H. Nielsen\u2019s experiences on the Eastern Front and in prisoner-of-war captivity. <\/li>\n<li>From Kaukasus to Leningrad: A. Marini, Argentina alias P. R. Engelhardt, ZAC Publishing, 1980. Volumes I\u2013III. <\/li>\n<li>Frikorps Denmark\u2019s history: Engelhardt, Poul Rantzau, National Archives of Denmark, April 1970. Confidential report published in 1992 on Frikorps Denmark and its officers.<\/li>\n<li>Frikorps Denmark\u2019s battles: Martinsen, K.B., Publishing House, 1944. Published during the war. A former SS officer recounts Frikorps Denmark\u2019s battles on the Eastern Front. <\/li>\n<li>Front pigs, Frostbite Knots, Traitors: Haaest, Erik, Bogans Publishing, 1975.<\/li>\n<li>Frikorps members \u2013 Frikorps Denmark on the Eastern Front 1941\u20131945, told by those who took part. A reissued collected volume, Bogans Publishing, 1995. <\/li>\n<li>Who was who 1940\u20131945: Gads Publishing. Short biographies of all major figures during the occupation. <\/li>\n<li>No news from the Eastern Front \u2013 Per S\u00f8rensen: Haaest, Erik, Bogans Publishing, 1998. Per S\u00f8rensen\u2019s letters from the Eastern Front. <\/li>\n<li>Kasler-journalerne: can be found at www.kasler-journal.dk<\/li>\n<li>Warrior: B\u00f8gh, Frank, Documentas Publishing, 2005. About Knud B\u00f8rge Martinsen\u2019s life. <\/li>\n<li>Politics and strategy, World War II: Aage Trommer, Aschehoug, 1882.<\/li>\n<li>The legal reckoning after the occupation: Ditlev Tamm, Jurist and Economic Publishing, 1984.<br \/>Schalburg: Mikkel Kirkeb\u00e6k, Gyldendal, 2008. <\/li>\n<li>Removed from the roll \u2013 a Frikorps soldier\u2019s reckoning with the past: Nielsen, Olaf, Aros, 1977.<\/li>\n<li>Sv\u00e6rdborg: SS volunteer: Jensen, Svend Aage, Bogans Publishing, 1985. Sv\u00e6rdborg\u2019s experiences in Frikorps Denmark.  <\/li>\n<li>Under the Swastika and the Dannebrog \u2013 Danes in the Waffen-SS: Christensen, Claus Bundg\u00e5rd, Aschehoug, 1998. About Danish citizens who served as soldiers in the Nazi military organization Waffen-SS. <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":2361,"template":"","personer":[113],"class_list":["post-2360","litteratur_og_kilder","type-litteratur_og_kilder","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","personer-literature-and-sources"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fkdanmark.simsoft.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/litteratur_og_kilder\/2360","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fkdanmark.simsoft.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/litteratur_og_kilder"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fkdanmark.simsoft.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/litteratur_og_kilder"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fkdanmark.simsoft.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2361"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fkdanmark.simsoft.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"personer","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fkdanmark.simsoft.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/personer?post=2360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}