Religion: Danish Defiance

Over the freshly sodded grave of a British pilot who crashed in Denmark, a Danish pastor, whose name did not reach the outer world, placed a stone with this inscription: "Fell in the battle, also for Denmark."

The Nazis were furious. Twice they told the pastor to remove the stone; twice he refused. Then he got the order from the local Nazi big shot. The pastor's reply: "I have buried this Englishman and he now rests in hallowed earth. So long as I am pastor of this church, none, not even the Wehrmacht, shall violate this place."

Last week the stone was still...

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