Denmark will receive a humanitarian award for the country’s efforts to rescue Jews during World War II. Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen will receive the Lyndon Baines Johnson Moral Courage Award on April 21 in Houston. Some 90 percent of Denmark’s 7,000 Jews were saved during World War II.
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