Denmark
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[edit] Denmark in In the Presence of Mine Enemies
Denmark was an occupied territory of the Greater German Reich. Danes were considered Aryans by the Nazis, afforded better treatment than countries like Poland, Serbia, Russia and Ukraine.
With the death of Führer Kurt Haldweim and his replacement with reformer Heinz Buckliger in 2010, the Danes began demanding independence. In 2011, two men were arrested in Copenhagen for carrying an anti-German poster through the streets demanding full independence for Denmark.
Denmark denounced the 2011 Putsch.
[edit] Denmark in Ruled Britannia
Denmark was a Protestant nation in Europe ruled by King Christian IV. Following the conquest of England by the Duke of Medina Sidonia's Spanish Armada and the Spanish army under the Duke of Parma in 1589, and the reintroduction of Catholicism as England's official state religion under Queen Isabella and King Albert, many Protestant English lords and gentlemen took refuge in Denmark, including Anthony Bacon, who fled there with his young lover Thomas. Baltasar Guzman believed Spain should send an army to conquer Denmark and restore Catholicism to it as it had England and the Netherlands.
The old Danish legend of Amleth was Wiliam Shakespeare's inspiration for writing Prince of Denmark.
[edit] Denmark in Southern Victory
Denmark was a member of the Central Powers during the Second Great War. Physicist Niels Bohr joined Germany's superbomb effort.
[edit] Denmark in Worldwar
Denmark was invaded and conquered by Germany at the beginning of World War II and absorbed into the Greater German Reich. Its colonies of Iceland and Greenland were occupied by the Allied Forces and eventually were taken over by joint American/Canadian administrators under the terms of the Peace of Cairo. During the war against the Race's Conquest Fleet, Joachim von Ribbentrop sometimes sailed in ships flying the Danish flag on the rationale that such ships would make less tempting targets to the Race's killercraft pilots than German ships.
