The long-standing belief that King Christian X wore the yellow Star of David about Copenhagen-proclaiming himself a Jew and daring the Nazis to dispatch him to a concentration camp-is untrue. In his opening pages, though, Lidegaard-a diplomat, historian and journalist-seems to raise the disturbing possibility the story shines brighter than it should. If there is a bright spot in the horrific story of Europe’s Jews under the Third Reich, it has always been the mass escape of Denmark’s Jewish population from the Nazis’ final solution. Countrymen: The Untold Story Of How Denmark’s Jews Escaped The Nazis
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