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De Frie Danske

The Free Danes

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The Free Danes (Danish: De frie Danske) was a Danish resistance newspaper published in Copenhagen about monthly from December 1941 to 24 May 1945.[1] It was the first Danish non-communist resistance newspaper and the first to bring photographs and also one of the largest with final issues reaching a circulation of 20,000.[2] Especially notable was the June 1944  titled 'The Free Danes Welcome our Allied Friends' with a four colored front page photo of one US and one British rifleman each in front of their national flags.

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