TD: volume 21, issue 2024, 1, page 109–130

Abstract

Es folgt die Zusammenfassung in englischer Sprache following the article short description

Due to its special status and peaceful occupation policy, Denmark was long regarded as a “model protectorate” of the Nazi regime during World War II. This did not change until the end of 1943, when a wave of sabotage and strikes led to the resignation of the Danish government and the German occupying power responded to the ongoing attacks by the Danish resistance with a new security policy. Assassinations and acts of sabotage were now retaliated against in the same way. Given this context, the article examines the background and the establishment of the so-called „counter-terrorism“. At the same time, the article discusses the central consequences of this special policy of retaliation and examines the political consequences associated with the dynamics of security and insecurity.