Sabotage against Danish Automobile Construction 16-02-1945
Dansk Automobilbyggeri’s entrance and facade towards Fredensgade, picture taken in February 1945. Notice the armed guard.
Intro
With the help of two saboteurs familiar with the location, a “rejsegruppe” (a travelling group) from Aarhus planted 14 bombs in the company's halls. Most of the machines in the workshop were destroyed, not least by the rapid cooling after the fire...
With the help of two saboteurs familiar with the location, a “rejsegruppe” (a travelling group) from Aarhus planted 14 bombs in the company's halls. Most of the machines in the workshop were destroyed, not least by the rapid cooling after the fire. Shortly after the attack, Leif Dines Petersen and Poul Mackeprang Nielsen were arrested along with two other participants. They were interrogated and executed in Ryvangen a month later.
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Torvet 4-8, Fredensgade 6 og 12, Søndergade 5
Silkeborg
38 Silkeborg
Rejsegruppe fra Århus sammen med Leif Dines Petersen og Poul Mackeprang Nielsen
KF5-4623
KL-10778
Søren Hansen: Daglige beretninger om begivenheder under den tyske besættelse, 1946, s. 654.