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===Denmark===
{{Main|Denmark in World War II}}
[[File:Frikorps danmarks afrejse til oestfronten hellerup station 1941 (1).jpg|thumb|Members of [[Free Corps Denmark]] leaving for the Eastern Front from [[Hellerup railway station]] in Copenhagen (1941).]]
Denmark was occupied by Germany after April 1940 and never joined the Axis. On 31 May 1939, Denmark and Germany signed a treaty of non-aggression, which did not contain any military obligations for either party.<ref>[http://www.navalhistory.dk/Danish/Historien/1939_1945/IkkeAngrebsPagt.htm "Den Dansk-Tyske Ikke-Angrebstraktat af 1939"]. Flådens Historie. {{in lang|da}}</ref> On April 9, Germany [[Operation Weserübung|attacked Scandinavia]], and the speed of the [[German invasion of Denmark (1940)|German invasion of Denmark]] prevented King [[Christian X of Denmark|Christian X]] and the Danish government from going into exile. They had to accept "protection by the Reich" and the stationing of German forces in exchange for nominal independence. Denmark coordinated its foreign policy with Germany, extending diplomatic recognition to Axis collaborator and puppet regimes, and breaking diplomatic relations with the Allied governments-in-exile. Denmark broke diplomatic relations with the Soviet Union and signed the Anti-Comintern Pact in 1941.<ref name="Trommer">{{cite web| first=Trommer |last= Aage | title='Denmark'. The Occupation 1940–45 | publisher=[[Foreign Ministry of Denmark]] | url=http://www.um.dk/Publikationer/UM/English/Denmark/kap6/6-15.asp| access-date=2006-09-20 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20060618002436/http://www.um.dk/Publikationer/UM/English/Denmark/kap6/6-15.asp |archive-date = 2006-06-18}}</ref> However the United States and Britain ignored Denmark and worked with [[Henrik Kauffmann]] Denmark's ambassador in the US when it came to dealings about using [[Iceland in World War II|Iceland]], [[Greenland in World War II|Greenland]], and the Danish merchant fleet against Germany.<ref>William L. Langer and S. Everett Gleason, ''The Undeclared War, 1940–1941'' (1953), pp. 172–173, 424–431, 575–578</ref>{{sfn|Petrow|1974|p=165}}

In 1941 Danish Nazis set up the ''[[Frikorps Danmark]]''. Thousands of volunteers fought and many died as part of the German Army on the Eastern Front. Denmark sold agricultural and industrial products to Germany and made loans for armaments and fortifications. The German presence in Denmark included the construction of part of the [[Atlantic Wall]] fortifications which Denmark paid for and was never reimbursed.

The Danish protectorate government lasted until 29 August 1943, when the cabinet resigned after the [[Danish Folketing election, 1943|regularly scheduled and largely free election]] concluding the [[Folketing]]'s current term. The Germans imposed [[martial law]] following [[Operation Safari]], and Danish collaboration continued on an administrative level, with the Danish bureaucracy functioning under German command. The [[Royal Danish Navy]] scuttled 32 of its larger ships; Germany seized 64 ships and later raised and refitted 15 of the sunken vessels.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/article.php?lang=en&ModuleId=10005449 |title=Jasenovac |date=11 July 2003 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20030711191159/http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/article.php?lang=en&ModuleId=10005449 |archive-date=11 July 2003 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.navalhistory.dk/danish/Historien/1939_1945/dk_efter29august.htm |title=Flåden efter 29 August 1943 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070816205702/http://navalhistory.dk/Danish/Historien/1939_1945/dk_efter29august.htm |archive-date=16 August 2007 }}</ref> 13 warships escaped to Sweden and formed a Danish naval flotilla in exile. Sweden allowed formation of a [[Danish Brigade in Sweden|Danish military brigade in exile]]; it did not see combat.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.danforce.dk/article/articleview/2/1/1 |title=Den Danske Brigade "DANFORCE" Sverige 1943–45 |date=12 August 2002 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20020812000535/http://www.danforce.dk/article/articleview/2/1/1 |archive-date=12 August 2002 }}</ref> The [[Danish resistance movement]] was active in sabotage and issuing underground newspapers and blacklists of collaborators.{{sfn|Petrow|1974|pp=185–195}}