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Born September 26, 1870 • Denmark
Died April 20, 1947 (aged 76) • Copenhagen • Denmark
Title / Office king (1912-1947), Denmark
Role In World War II • Resistance

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Frederik IX
Frederik IX
king of Denmark
Josip Broz Tito
Josip Broz Tito
president of Yugoslavia
Marc Bloch
French historian
Avrom Sutzkever
Israeli writer
Mordecai Anielewicz
Mordecai Anielewicz
Jewish resistance leader
Yitzhak Zuckerman.
Yitzhak Zuckerman
Polish hero
Simone Weil.
Simone Weil
French philosopher
Jacques Chaban-Delmas
French politician
St. Maksymilian Maria Kolbe
St. Maksymilian Maria Kolbe
Polish martyr
Georges Bidault
prime minister of France
Goerdeler, Karl Friedrich
Carl Goerdeler
German politician
Dragoljub Mihailović
Yugoslavian resistance leader
Marie-Pierre Koenig
French military officer
Pierre Brossolette
French journalist
Mieczysław Moczar
Polish politician
Jean Moulin
French resistance leader
Keith Park
New Zealand military officer
Theodore Roosevelt, Jr.
United States military officer
Winston Churchill
Winston Churchill
prime minister of United Kingdom
Adolf Hitler
Adolf Hitler
dictator of Germany

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