The Samsing group ( Dat. Samsing-gruppen ) is an armed unit of the Danish Resistance , operating in Denmark occupied by the Germans ( Third Reich ) during the Second World War from June 1943 to June 6, 1944 .
| Samsing Group | |
|---|---|
| Years of existence | June 1943 - June 1944 |
| A country |  Denmark |
| Included in | Danish resistance movement |
| Dislocation | Aarhus |
| Participation in | World War II : Danish Resistance |
| Commanders | |
| Famous commanders | Willie Samsing |
The group commander was Dane Willy Samsing, and his three brothers and 10 to 12 people were also in the group. The group organized 60 diversions of various sizes in the city of Aarhus and its environs, remaining the main shock force of the Resistance in Aarhus for a long time [1] . The partisans managed to get the captured weapons, they also received supplies from the Western allies and transferred them to other resistance units in Jutland [2] . In 1944, the group was defeated by German special services, and its members were captured . Samsing's group collaborated with a group of students at Aarhus University held underground since 1942 [3] [4] .
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History
The Weserubung operation to occupy Denmark and Norway took place within a few hours on April 9, 1940 . In June 1941, Germany embarked on the implementation of the Barbarossa plan , and the Danish government began to arrest the Communists by signing the Communist Act on August 22, 1941 , which outlawed them. A significant part of the Danish Communists went underground or fled the country [5] . Willy "Frandsen" Samsing was the head of the Danish Communist Party branch in Troiborg , With his brothers, he founded a resistance unit close to communist ideology. The group conducted its first operation on March 22, 1943 , and the last in May 1944 [6] [2] . From August 10 to 11, 1943, the group carried out one of its largest operations, blocking 9 districts of Aarhus, which eventually resulted in the August crisis and the dissolution of the Danish government [7] .
In May 1944, the Danish Resistance received a radiogram from England (from whom?) Ordering to destroy the power station in Aarhus. Headed the Jutland resistance at that time, Wagn Bennike provided the Samsing group with this task and issued an official order. The chief engineer of the power plant was also involved in cooperation with the Resistance and provided the scheme of the power plant to the partisans, but warned: the consequences could be dire, and the city could remain without light for 3 or 4 years. Samsing, learning about this, did not dare to perform the operation, and it was canceled. After the war, it turned out in the documents that Bennik gave the order without consulting the Danish Liberation Council [8] .
In April 1944, three partisans of the Samsing group were sent to Heubjerg to interrogate a certain citizen who collaborated with the Germans. The group found a house where the wife and 17-year-old son of the suspect, but not the suspect, were located [9] . The partisans left without touching anyone, but on May 8, the son of the suspect betrayed 17-year-old Harry Samsing, who was among the three, the police arrested Harry the same day, and then two more people from the Samsing group [10] . On the same day, the Gestapo recruited Danish Grete Bartram thanks to the testimony of which the whole group was exposed. By September 1944, all members of the Samsing group were already arrested [11] .
The prisoners were held in the Froslev prison and the Neuengamme concentration camp . In 1945, they managed to evacuate the survivors and take them out on " white buses ", but on April 26, 1945 in Helsingborg, Willy Samsing died of typhoid [5] [3] .
Events on the night of August 10-11, 1943
- August 10, 23:00 - a fire in a workshop in Vailby [3] .
- August 10, 23:57 - a German bus caught fire in a machine shop in Troiborg.
- August 11, 00:00 - a major fire in a German store on Østergade street.
- August 11, 00:30 - a fire in the carpenter’s workshop on Knudris Gade .
- August 11, 00:38 - fire at the docks of Aarhus at Fiskerihavnen.
- August 11, 01:30 - fire in the workshop of saddlery in Studsgad .
- August 11, 04:20 - a German freight car in Troiborg caught fire.
- August 11 - explosion of two barracks at Brendstrupgaard.
Notes
- ↑ Hauerbach, 1945 , p. 22.
- ↑ 1 2 Hansen, 1946 , p. 42.
- ↑ 1 2 3 Samsing Gruppen (Danish) . Den Gamle By . Date of treatment August 28, 2015.
- ↑ Alenius, 2002 , p. 182.
- ↑ 1 2 Alenius, 2002 , p. 188.
- ↑ Hansen, 1946 , p. ten.
- ↑ Hansen, 1946 , p. 7.
- ↑ Maj 1944 (Danish) . Den Gamle By . Date of treatment August 28, 2015.
- ↑ Hansen, 1946 , p. 39.
- ↑ Hansen, 1946 , p. 43.
- ↑ Hansen, 1946 , p. 44.
Literature
- Solomon Hansen. Jyske Sabotører: Willy Samsing-Gruppen . - Jydsk Centraltryk, 1946. (link unavailable)
- Marianne Alenius. Ikke noget theselskab: Var vi terrorister? . - Museum Tusculanums Forlag, 2002 .-- ISBN 87-7289-736-8 .
- Sven Hauerbach. 5. Kolonne; Aarhus-sabotørernes modige indsats . - 5 Kolonne, 1945. Archived on April 15, 2016. Archived April 15, 2016 on Wayback Machine