The newspaper Le Temps reports that Jews in Denmark, trapped by the German occupation, were making desperate attempts to cross into Sweden, fearing Nazi anti-Semitic persecution. (There are approximately 7,200 Jews in Denmark, 1,200 of them refugees from Germany.)
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