Jews and Anti-Semitism in Scandinavia

By Knud Eriksen
Lecture given in Barcelona, Spain on Oct. 9, 2011
Since I am Danish I thought it might be appropriate to give you a summary of The Jewish
Question in Scandinavia, as it applies to my own country, Denmark, and the nearby countries,
Sweden, Norway. In order to limit the scope of this talk, I do not cover Finland, which has a rather
small Jewish population, but certainly a powerful one (1) and Iceland, which hardly knew what a
Jew was before 1930 and still does not attract many Jews, yet has recently played a central role in
dealing with Russian criminal (Jewish) oligarks and getting gangbanked by the big international
banks.
It makes sense to expect a pattern in these countries much like the one seen in other countries at all
times: Jews enter the countries in small numbers, then the numbers grow, Jews dominate many
trades and activities after a while, the upper strata of the country ally with wealthy Jews for
financial and selfish reasons and the local population protests for several reasons, until a violent
insurgence makes it necessary for the ruler to curb the activities of the Jews and maybe throw them
out altogether, like here in Spain, in 1492. Today they, nevertheless, run affairs in the Western
world from behind the curtains, entrenched in finance, media and politics.
This exact pattern has been repeated so many times that it appears to be a natural law. The notion,
that all gentile people, whether Europeans or Arabs of today or the Greek, Persians and Romans of
antiquity should suffer from a common mental illness, as most Jewish writings claim or infer,
strains the logic of most of us, and to claim that the Jews, themselves, might suffer from a mental
illness, then and now, which prompts them to behave destructively, whether this is based in their
gene pool or transmitted through their culture and religion, is a notion so politically incorrect and
forbidden, that I will not follow it through today.
Could there be something of particular interest about Jews and Anti-Semitism in Scandinavia? Of
course Jewish matters run across frontiers like nothing else, but I will try to outline some
similarities and some differences between the phenomena as they evolved in these Scandinavian
countries, and give some references to where you may learn more. And I will try to seek out facts of
special importance and interest.
It will be necessary to distinguish between the three areas of interest when we talk about The Jewish
Question, although in my account, I will be obliged to shift between them as I go. They are:
1) The historical account of Jews entering the countries. This account is usually given in a
useful way by encyclopaedias, such as the on-line Wikipedia, although with important
distortions and also with facts left out. I will extract from Wikipedia and other mainstream
sources, then, with some additions and comments, and in doing so, will show manipulations
by the encyclopaedia.
2) The phenomenon of Anti-Semitism, the reaction from the local population to the
Jewish influx, the Jewish ways and usually Jewish domination and financial
usurpation of the local population. Also the literary and political fights over this and the
often Jew-friendly decisions by the rulers. Here mainstream sources are severely distorted in

the direction of Jewish swindletalk and a growing hysteria whenever any criticism is
levelled against Jews, Jewish causes or the state of Israel.
3) The actual power of Jewry in the society, which is much more hidden and much more
pervasive than the surface manifestations. This power has grown steadily in all of
Europe, and likewise in all of Scandinavia, particularly since the Emancipation and the
Napoleonic wars. And it grew exponentially since the revolutions of the 19th Century and
the rise of the modern banking system, which is dominated by Jews at the top, both
nationally and internationally in the West. The final stages of this power is found in
everything that money can buy. The enormous Jewish financial resources can buy almost
anything in the field of politics and propaganda, in the press and publishing industry, the
entertainment industry and the international, electronic mass media of today and has done
so, already long ago.
I can only here mention as a fact, that the Jewish power is great in all Scandinavian countries,
particularly in the media, in politics and in finance. This is a situation established more than
hundred years ago, and I will in this talk confine myself, on this point, to only refer to further
study and concentrate on the first two points, the history of Jewish immigration in Denmark,
Sweden and Norway. (notes 1,3,4,6 and 15)
Wikipedia as source of information
Here in Spain, today, you are obviously aware of the pattern for Jewish influence, that I mentioned
at the beginning, for it goes very far back, and in since in Spain was established one of the largest
and most prosperous Jewish communities the world has known, as Wikipedia writes - from 711 till
1492. Yet the Jews were mainly known as traitors to Spain when the Moslems conquered that
country, siding with them and taking over the harsh administration of conquered towns as the
Moslem armies went on, killing and plundering new territory. This situation remained for about 800
years, until the Jews were expelled along with the Moslems in 1492. Very much the same picture as
previously in Greece, Rome and Persia.
This already shows you that it is not enough to look up such subjects in dictionaries like Wikipedia
or others. Wikipedia like so many other encyclopaedias through the years have mainly described
Jewish topics as seen from the Jewish side. One wonders why. There are very simple and also
very clever ways to manipulate articles in encyclopaedias. Simple ways would be to simply lie
about something, but that is often easily discovered. A better way is to leave out important
information, which alters the understanding. Yet a better way is to combine the ways, leave out
something, draw attention to other areas, mention something briefly without digging into and
expanding on some vital information etc.
Wikipedia, for example, describes the situation in Spain in this way (2):
the majority, together with resident Moslems, were forced to convert to Catholicism, be expelled
or be killed when Spain became united under the Catholic Monarchs King Ferdinand and Isabella in
1492
The degree of complicity which the Jews had in the Islamic invasion in 711 is uncertain.

As you can hear, we here have first a so-called Anti-Semitic (they were plain traitors) and then a
Pro-Semitic (Wikipedia) version of these important historic events. It is uncertain when it cannot
simply be lied away, just like the Jewish complicity in the Russian Revolution of 1917 is still
uncertain in mainstream literature and encyclopaedias, although Jews were wildly
overrepresented in that catastrophic event.
For the Scandinavian countries the same difference between historic explanations applies. As you
can easily look up Wikipedia, yourselves, and get thousands of words from this angle, I will bring
also the other side, especially by showing where an encyclopaedia like Wikipedia manipulates. This
feels natural to me, too, since I am already accused (by Jews) of being an Anti-Semite myself. I
refute that title, since I am only looking for the truth of matters, and hearing the other side which
is simple fairness and admittedly often brings more sense on the table is not comme il faut in
polite circles today. The truth often seems to be Anti-Semitic.
What shaped Jewish immigration, power and Anti-Semitism in Scandinavia?
Well, the important impulses, that were shaping events in Scandinavia in regard to Jews, came from
the outside:
First of all there was their image, not very flattering, which travelled ahead of them, as the
murderers of Christ. This came to the far North via traders, priests, armies and literature. Then
arrived the court Jews, who created envy and resentment, then came the ragged tradesmen, who
were lumped with beggars and thieves. Then, in the 18th and 19th Centuries, the wealthy merchants
and bankers, creating more resentment, because of exploitation, and because they were protected
from the peoples rage by kings and noblemen.
Vital event events from the outside were:
The Reformation in Scandinavia. The countries left the Catholic church (Denmark 1536) for the
Lutheran reformed church. Jews and Catholics were banned from the countries.
The next major impulse was the Enlightenment and as the climax of that, the French
Revolution where Jews were given citizens rights in France. Napoleon and his armies exported this
so-called emancipation of the Jews via his armies.
Denmark was eventually on the French and losing - side, and as Norway had hitherto been a
possession of Denmark, it was directly affected. Denmark went bankrupt in 1813. Jews were
generally seen as having profited from the war, and even having driven the country into bankruptcy.
A literary feud pro and contra the Jews broke out in Denmark in 1813. The King and authorities
were protecting the Jews, which was very unpopular with the general people. Nevertheless the King
decided to let emancipation be the guiding principle and Jews obtained their civil rights in 1814.
Norway should go to Sweden, the winning powers decided, but in the interim a Norwegian
constitution decided to totally ban Jews from Norway, even if Denmark had done the extreme
opposite only months before. When Norway entered into the personal union of Sweden-Norway,
the ban against Jews was upheld, though Sweden at that point had several Jewish communities.
Here also, a heated debate pro and contra the Jews broke out in the aftermath. It lasted, with
interruptions, until the 1850ties.

Sweden, the enemy of France then, was worried about Napoleons attempt to bring all of Europes
Jewry under French influence from1806, (The Great Sanhedrin), (3) and it put a temporary brake
on the giving more rights to the Jews.
The Congress of Vienna, 1815, restored the royal families in power after the French Revolution
and Napoleons changes. This reversed the ongoing liberation of Jews in Europe, and in several
places in Germany, and also in Copenhagen, Denmark, serious riots broke out in 1819, as protests
against the protections and privileges given to Jews.
The Revolutionary outbreaks of the 19th Century, 1830, 1848 and 1870 were gradually coming
under the control Jews, as Benjamin Disraeli stated: that mighty revolution which is at this
moment preparing in Germany is developing entirely under the auspices of the Jews. (4)
The Modern Breakthrough (5) from 1870-1890. A strong literary movement, with naturalism
supplanting romanticism. Created a social liberal intellectual climate for all of Scandinavia which
has lasted up until present time. Danish author and literary critic, Jewish Georg Brandes was, by
many, considered the wire-puller for this powerful, intellectual movement.
Russian Revolution. And of course the events in Russia, with pogroms in 1881 after the murder
of Zar Alexander II, and the so-called Russian Revolution (actually Jewish) of 1905 and 1917,
where an almost entirely Jewish government took over and initiated the Communist nightmare, that
would last 70 years. This was one of the most recent indirect, powerful Jewish movements, begun
by the Jew Karl Marx. Anti-Semitic movements grew in numbers correspondingly.
The Hitler-era. As Germany, under National Socialism tried to get rid of their Jews and limit their
power.
The Postwar refugees from communist countries. Although many Jews held high positions in
Communist regimes, they became increasingly unpopular and many emigrated to Scandinavia.
Israel. The creation of the state and its inhuman treatment of its neighbours has caused widespread
Anti-zionism, which Jews generally view as poorly disguised Anti-Semitism.
Moslem immigration to Scandinavia. The latest Anti-Semitism comes from this side, and although
Jewry long made propaganda for maximum immigration here, they have now turned around and
complain about persecution from Moslems.
Jewish banking and The press. In the background there has all the time been the incredible
Jewish financial power, which originally secured the support and protection from kings in all of
Europe, and facilitated bribes also of noblemen of the parliaments and other decision-makers and
finally made possible the takeover and creation of powerful media, which drove public opinion in
the direction wanted by Jewry. These factors account for the growing legal acceptance in the
Scandinavian countries, always against the will of ordinary people.
The media became, by themselves, arguably the most formidable force in modern societies, and
from the middle of the 19th Century it is possible to trace the growing Jewish media-power and the
successful propaganda for Jewish causes and against Jewish enemies, or even persons and causes

just unwanted by Jewry. No full study has been made of the Jewish money and media power, but in
one of my websites, Mosaic Upps, youll find a survey of the media influence, as of 6-7 years ago,
(6) which show how permeating it is.
Sweden as the example of Jewish immigration in Scandinavia.
Let me now first take the Jews of Sweden as the example of how a respectable on-line dictionary,
Wikipedia, gives you a manipulated knowledge of Jews and Anti-Semitism in Sweden, bearing in
mind that more or less the same can be said about the other Scandinavian countries.
I will add here, that I find Wikipedia very useful and often use it myself, actually as number two, in
importance, after Google, for any person, place or subject, I want to know about. But I make very
sure to supplement these informations with other sources. In this case, so-called Anti-Semitic
literature and websites. For Sweden a very good such source is RADIO ISLAM and its main
contributor, Ahmed Rami, a Moroccan refugee, former officer in Morocco and later an author of
several books and doctor of political science at Stockholm University. I will use the abbreviation
(AR) for his book The Power of Israel in Sweden (7)
Wikipedia on History of the Jews in Sweden, (as of Aug. 24, 2011) states:
The History of the Jews in Sweden probably began with arrivals from the Hanseatic
League in medieval times, but there are no records. In Elizabethan times it was common
for European royalty to have Jewish doctors at court, and there is a record of a Jewish
doctor who served Gustav Vasa in the 16th century.(8)
True enough, but left out is the content of the record and what Gustav Vasa felt about the service of
the Jewish doctor, Herman Israel from Lbeck, the first recorded Jew in Sweden: He nearly killed
him, when he met him in a street in Malm, drew his sword and finished his scolding of him by
angrily calling him you mean traitor (he and the Hanseatic League had overreached their
usurpation of Sweden and the king) (7)(AR, p. 191).
Wikipedia continues:
Through court patronage Jewish merchants were occasionally appointed royal purveyors;
and during the warlike reign of Charles XII (a.k.a. Karl XII) the king usually had one or
more wealthy Jews with him in the field, to take care of the paymaster's department of his
army.(8)
Through their influence permission was obtained (1718) for Jews to settle in the kingdom
without the necessity of abjuring their religion.(8)
But here Wikipedia has skipped a few enlightening facts, which I add from Ahmed Rami (7) and
the following source:
According to A Historical Atlas of the Jewish People, edited by Eli Barnavi,1998 (9) (HA) Rabbi
Menasseh (Ben Israel, 1604-1657, who in fact functioned as the Jewish ambassador to the gentiles,
and was certainly one of the most well-known Jews of his day) only began to focus on the

practical implementation of the readmission of the Jews (to England) after several of his other
projects had failed. Most notable among these was his attempt to become the Jewish Descartes in
Queen Christinas Sweden.(9) (HA, p.140)
His co-religionists, the Portuguese Jew Diego Teixeira and his son, Manoel, were the next Jews to
play an ominous role in Sweden... Queen Christina was in constant need of money and became
completely dependent on these (super-rich) Jews...also many of their Jewish colleagues in the
Jewish-sephardic financial world became contacts of the queen (7)(AR, p.192)
In other words, a very strategic role had been planned for Sweden then. A stronghold for Jewry.
This stronghold instead became England and much later, the USA. Certainly interesting to
contemplate.
During the reign of Charles XI, from 1672, the attitude toward Jews hardened. Many Jews
converted to Christianity to be able to stay, and many changed their names....through these namechanges it became possible to hide their real lineage from the people and to hide the actual numbers
of Jews in Sweden, who now were counted as Germans, Russians, Poles etc. (7) (AR, p.
193)
And Wikipedia goes on:
Charles XII had spent five years in Bender, Bessarabia, at the time a part of the Ottoman
Empire, with his army and incurred tremendous debts with Jewish and Muslim merchants
who supplied the army with equipment and provisions. On his return a large number of
Muslim and Jewish creditors arrived in Sweden, and the Swedish law was altered so as to
allow these immigrants to hold Jewish and Muslim services and to circumcise their sons.
(8)
After the death of Charles XII in 1718, the Swedish government was financially
embarrassed for a long time, and the royal household was often relieved from pecuniary
difficulties by the Jewish merchants of Stockholm, who, as a reward for their
accommodations, insisted on the granting of additional privileges to themselves and their
coreligionists. (8)
Here, again, an addition definitely considered Anti-Semitic, is enlightening:
Jewish pressure, Jewish bribes and Jewish attemps to have Sweden invite several rich Portuguese
Jewish families to Sweden did not succeed, mainly because of opposition from the important
Swedish statesman, Karl Gustaf Tessin, who warned against a growing Jewish dominance and who
proved that the Jewish business practice was harmful to Sweden. The number one spokesman for
the Jewish demands, royal advisor, Samuel Aakerhjelm, was ousted. (7)(AR, p. 194)
And Wikipedia again:
In 1782 an ordinance was issued by which the Jews were permitted, on certain conditions,
to settle anywhere in the kingdom, and to practise freely the tenets of their religion. It was,
however, specified that Jews were ineligible for government positions and for election to
the legislative assembly; they were, moreover, forbidden to establish schools for the

propagation of their creed, and to combine with their religious services such ceremonies as
might possibly cause disquietude in the minds of the general population. (8)
The Enlightenment had reached Sweden and the King Gustav III became the great benefactor for
the Jews. His standpoint was that Jews could bring financial benefits to Sweden. However, this
opinion was all the time only held by the upper echelons of the society, whereas the general people
were constantly against letting Jews in and giving them free reins. (7) (AR, p. 194)
After 1782 Jews gradually secured more rights from the government, but many Jews,
particularly those living in Stockholm, desired even greater opportunity and desired to not
be disadvantaged due to their religion. A feeling of indignation arose among the general
population against the ambitious Jews of Stockholm, many of whom were prosperous
financiers; the population witnessed a different, small, and disadvantaged community of
Jews prosper to a greater extent than the general population despite laws that were
designed to subjugate the Jewish population relative to the general population. Anger grew
at the gap in wealth between Jews and others; such anger reached a height in 1838. (1)
But already from 1815 the Swedish people showed growing anger at the many privileges given to
Jews by king Gustav III. (7) (AR)
In other words. The anger among Swedes grew for at least 33 years, based on easily understandable
rejection of preference for Jews on the part of the King and the nobility. It took another 23-25 years
before the anger exploded in an uprising and a serious discussion in books of the Jewish Problem..
One could also be of the opinion , that the Swedes had shown a lot of patience. (that is an AntiSemitic explanation, of course)
Wikipedia then explains:
After a new ordinance was promulgated which abolished nearly all restrictions upon Jews'
civic rights, a serious uprising took place in the capital; and numerous complaints were
presented to the government, denouncing the alleged 'undue preference' shown Jews. On
September 21 of the same year the government was compelled to revoke the new
ordinance. (8)
During the following years the book-market was deluged by brochures for and against the
Mosaiter. This controversy between sympathizers and antagonists of the Jews continued
until 1840, when the Commons in the Riksdag petitioned the government to re-establish
the ordinance of 1782 in its original form. ..The efforts to create anti-Jewish sentiment
in the Riksdag were, however, unavailing, and at a later session of that body (1853), when
public opinion had turned more in favour of the Jews, they were accorded additional
privileges. (8)
During the latter half of the nineteenth century the few remaining disabilities of the Jews
were removed. Under the law of October 26, 1860, they were granted the right to acquire
real estate in rural communities, whereas they had previously been permitted to own
property in the cities only. On January 20, 1863, another ordinance removed the
prohibition against intermarriages between Jews and Christians, (8)

There were, of course, various privileges which the Jews, like any other non-Lutherans,
could still not obtain as long as the then current constitution of the Swedish kingdom
remained in force. Thus, they could not become members of the cabinet; nor could they, as
judges or as members of committees, take part in discussions concerning religious
questions. Otherwise they enjoyed the same rights and were subject to the same duties as
the Swedish citizens of the Lutheran faith. (8)
More prohibitions were removed by 1870. One of the last prohibitions was not removed
until 1951, which stated that Jews could not hold political office. Once becoming full
citizens, Jews were treated as peers and Anti-Semitism was rare.
According to the statistics of 1890 there were in the entire kingdom of Sweden 3,402 Jews.
Since then, however, their number has been considerably augmented, and in 1905 the
Jewish Encyclopedia placed the Jewish population by a "conservative estimate" at 4,000.
(8)
During the pre-war years of Hitler's power (1933 to 1939), some 3,000 Jews migrated to.
In 1942, 900 Norwegian Jews were given asylum from Nazi persecution in their home
country, and, most importantly of all, almost the entire Danish Jewish community, some
8,000 people, was transported to Sweden in October 1943. (8)
In the years after World War II, many Jewish refugees from the Baltic Countries, Romania
and Poland moved to Sweden.In the following decades, more waves of Jewish refugees
came from Hungary in 1956 and 1968 who had fled the Communist government. More
refugees came then from Poland between 1968-1970. Between 1945 and 1970, the Jewish
population of Sweden doubled. (8)
There is no ethnic registration in Sweden, so the Jewish population can only be roughly
estimated. The Official Council of Swedish Jewish Communities estimation is that about
20,000 pass the halakhic criteria. Of those about 7,000 are members of any congregation.
Stockholm has the largest community, but Malm, Gothenburg, Bors, Helsingborg, Lund,
and Uppsala all have Jewish communities as well.. (8)
This historic summary for Sweden is given in some detail because it is typical for the way the
Jewish populace in a country, thus also in Scandinavia, grows against the will of the people, but
furthered by the lite of that country, and all because of the Jewish financial power, which in the
19th Century is then suppplemented with growing propaganda in a Jewish dominated press.
And it is given to show how one must balance information from official sources on such subjects,
with books and other sources, which will generally be deemed Anti-Semitic.
Norway
The following excerpts mainly taken from Wikipedia: The History of Jews in Norway and AntiSemitism in norway (10) my comments in between, without quotes:

Between the end of the 13th century and 1814 Norway was ruled by Denmark. In 1814,
when Denmark was on the loosing side the French during the Napoleonic wars - the
European great powers decided that Norway should enter a personal union with Sweden
under the Swedish King, thereby delaying its independence until 1905. But in 1814 a wave
of patriotism swept the country, and Norway acquired its first constitutionIt stated,
that Jews and Jesuits were forbidden from entering the kingdom. Although Denmark had
only a few months before completely lifted all restrictions on Jews, the assembly, after
some debate, went the other way.
The debate on the so-called Jewish clause was long and heated, however ban on Jews
entering Norway was passed. It was the constitutional draft put up by Nicolai Wergeland
that was the most anti-Semitic, he wrote: No person of the Jewish creed may enter
Norway, far less settle down there.
His son, the author and poet, Henrik Wergeland, was later to become the principal champion for the
Jews in Norway. He acquired many enemies on that account and died in 1845, only 37 years old,
six years before the Jews were finally permitted to enter the country in 1851, after which time the
Jewish population grew slowly until the early 20th century, when pogroms in Russia and the Baltic
states increased the number of immigrants.
A further increase in Jewish immigration came in the 1930s, as Jews fled Nazi
persecution in Germany and areas under German control.
There were two main communities, in Oslo and Trondheim. Though the Jewish minority
was small and widely dispersed, several anti-Semitic stereotypes took hold in popular
literature in the early 20th century. In such books by the widely read authors Rudolf Muus
and vre Richter Frich, Jews are described as obsessed with money and sadistic. In 1920,
The Protocols of the Elders of Zion was published in Norway under the title The New
World Emperor.
Norwegian attorney Eivind Saxlund published a pamphletJder og Gojim (Jews and
Goyim) in 1910, which was characterized as anti-Semitic slander by many in the media.
This characterization led Saxlund to sue for libel in 1922, (he lost the case), but earned
him the admiration of the newspaper The Nationen, which praised Saxlund for fighting
our race war.
The countrys immigration policy shifted following World War I to a far more restrictive
line, and Jews were particularly singled out. Restrictions were justified on an economic
basis, Jews would either create destructive competition for Norwegian merchants and
tradesmen, or freeload on public assistance. Some were based on purely political concerns,
Jews as communists and other subversive elements would create political instability, or
general xenophobia against foreign groups.
Anti-Semitism climaxed when the Germans invaded Norway and Denmark on April 9,
1940. Altogether approximately 767 Jews were deported. (10)
To this may be added, that Eivind Saxlund (11) was himself a lawyer who practiced at the
Norwegian Supreme Court. It may be, that he published a pamphlet but it was a translation from

no less a person than German Theodor Fritsch (12), who, in his turn, was one of the most famous
opponents of the Jews in Germany in the late 19th and early 20th Century. Fritsch was a member of
the German parliament (Reichstag). He wrote, among many other books, the best-seller
Handbuch der Judenfrage (Handbook of the Jewish Question) of 337 pages, which was read
by millions. By 1944 the 49th edition was published, in all 330.000 copies.
In an article (13) in the Jewish dominated Danish newspaper, Politiken, on July 26th, 1911, the
famous Jewish professor, author and literary critic, Georg Brandes, (nots) ridicules this pamphlet,
saying that the one and a half Jew living in Norway hardly can be a threat to the Norwegians, as
claimed by Saxlund.
However, he is, himself, the very proof of the opposite, since he, this one person, is generally
considered to be the creator of the so-called Modern Breakthrough (note) in Danish (and through
export, Scandinavian) literature and philosophy. By the way, his brother and other Jews ran the
newspaper Politiken, then.
This is moreover an example of how Jews often dominate and cause changes in indirect ways,
seldom openly. Brandes was in opposition to Danish nationalism and in favour of greater Europe
and internationalism. He didnt talk of himself as a Jew. He ridiculed Danish intelligentsia and elite
culture at a point in time, when Danes were at a low point after a crushing military defeat in 1864.
His line of literature/philosophy/politics Danish Social liberals a sort of cultural communism or
an internationalism - has been dominating Danish public life ever since then, heavily promoted by
the lite and the press.
Denmark
For Denmark a very authoritative work by Lorenz Christensen Det Tredie Ting (The Third
Chamber) would be the definitive, scholarly supplement to Wikipedia-articles on Jews and AntiSemitsm in Denmark. It is reproduced, in its entirety, about 1000 pages, (unfortunately in Danish)
at www.thedodo.info - one of my other websites, more exactly at
http://www.thedodo.info/Dronte%209/Dron09_05.htm. It is not available in the public libraries, nor
in the bookshops, but it has been admitted by mainstream historians, that you cannot get around it,
if you want to explore the evolution of Jewish power and Anti-Semitism in Denmark.
Let me start with an extract from Wikipedia History of the Jews in Denmark (14),
With the conclusion of the Danish Reformation in 1536, Jews along with Catholics were
prohibited entry into Denmark. The first known settlement on Danish territory was based
on a royal dispensation. When the industrious king Christian IV founded Glckstadt on
the river Elbe in today's Schleswig-Holstein, he allowed one Jewish merchant, Albert
Dionis, to settle in the city. This dispensation was extended to a few other JewsAlbert
Dionis rose to special status within the Danish royal court, apparently being a source of
credit for ambitious projects. Gabriel Gomez, who also attained this status, persuaded king
Frederik III to give general leave for Sephardic Jews to reside in Denmark for purposes of
conducting trade. Although this was limited to Sephardim, a number of Ashkenazim were
granted letters of safe passage and settled in the kingdom in the coming years.

Following the Thirty Years' War, which cost Denmark many of its possessions and created
a fiscal crisis for the Danish crown, Frederik III proclaimed an absolute monarchy in
Denmark. To improve trade, the king opened the door to greater immigration. .By 1780,
there were approximately 1600 Jews in Denmark, though all were admitted by special
permission granted only on the basis of personal wealth.
The Napoleonic Wars and the disastrous Gunboat War brought about a complete
emancipation of Danish Jews (while, in contrast, events in Norway resulted in a
constitutional ban on Jews entering Norway). Still, there were severe antisemitic riots in
Denmark in 1819 that were allowed to run their course for several months, though without
any known fatalities. On the other hand, the early 19th century saw a flourishing of
Danish-Jewish cultural life.
Events such as the Kishinev pogrom in 1903, the Russo-Japanese War in 1904, the series
of Russian revolutions, led to an influx of several thousand Jewish refugees into Denmark,
of whom approximately 3,000 settled in Denmark. The new arrivals changed the character
of Danish Jewry significantly. More likely to be socialist Bundists than religious . and
Denmark closed its door to further immigration in the early 1920s.
During the Second World War Danish policy sought to ensure its independence and
neutrality by placating the neighboring Nazi regime. When Denmark was put under
Germany military occupation on April 9, 1940, the situation became increasingly
precarious for the Jews and in 1943, the situation came to a head when the German
plenipotentiary in Denmark ordered the arrest and deportation of all Danish Jews.
However, the Jewish community was given advance warning, and only 202 were arrested
initially. As it turned out, 7,550 fled to Sweden, ferried across the resund strait. 450 Jews
were deported to the Theresienstadt concentration camp.
The number of Jews living in Denmark today (2011) is not known the estimated
number of people who consider themselves to be Jewish may be around 7,000-9,000 out of
a total population of 5.5 million. Almost all Jews are very integrated into main-stream
Danish societyBy all accounts, Danish society has maintained a safe and friendly
environment for its Jewish minority. (14)
My website, The Dodo (15) has an English section which describes the more modern background
for Anti-Semitism in Denmark, one of which was The Modern Breakthrough of 1871 and the
Jewish Brandes-brothers. The other was the breakdown of the biggest Danish bank
Landmandsbanken in 1922. The Jewish CEO had made risky speculations much as has happened
again today in the USA and in the financial crisis worldwide. Denmark almost went bankrupt again
because of the irresponsible actions of the bank, and the CEO was suspected of having siphoned a
lot of the money down into the pockets of his Jewish friends. In the years between the two
Worldwars several Anti-Semitic books appeared, mainly revealing the racist nature of the Jewish
religion, the Jewish role in subversive revolutionary activities and the prominent Jewish role in the
media and cultural life. The 1000-page tome of Lorenz Christensen concentrates on the Jewish role
in taking over Danish financial and political life, already in the beginning of the 20th Century.
The situation today

In all three Scandinavian countries the massive Moslem immigration was originally supported, even
pushed, wholeheartedly by Jewish spokesmen and media-persons. Later, when it became obvious
that the Moslems were antagonistic against Jews, this changed, and now Jewish spokesmen and
journalist are generally crying terrible Anti-Semitism after those hundreds of thousands, which
they invited into their Scandinavian homeland.
It has become fashionable in the media to label Anti-Zionism as just another Anti-Semitism.
Only because the ordinary people not the media of the Scandinavian countries have now and
then chosen to see the Middle East conflict from also the Palestinian angle, several articles have
labelled the Scandinavian countries very Anti-Semitic and Norway the most Anti-Semitic
country in the West according to a recent article by a prominent Norwegian Zionist, Hanne
Nabintu Herland. (16) A Danish Zionist, Hans Hauge claimed in an article in 2006 (17) that
Norway had a long tradition of Anti-Semtism. He said this when Jews and Zionists mounted a
major attack against the famous Norwegian author, Jostein Gaarder, for a critical article on Israel in
2006 (18). Several Scandinavian Zionists support this mindset, only based on the fact that
Norwegians are NOT ALWAYS and NO LONGER TOTALLY brainwashed to accept the Jewish
line.
The accusation of Anti-Semitism is completely nonsensical. The Jews and their supporters come
out in the hundreds or thousands, and have extremely easy access to the massmedia - when any ANY - of the Jewish hobbyhorses are in danger. The truth is, that the Scandinavians are mostly
totally in the dark about Jewish politics, and Jewish power. They are generally taken in by Little
Israel, the only democracy in the Middle East surrounded by evil, terrorist states, who have their
agents in our countries. Even the nationalist parties are taken over by that line.... and by Jews.
What may be true, on the other hand, is that the recent massmurder in Norway was perpetrated by a
Zionist madman, as claimed by David Duke in a recent video (19), Breivik has the physical brain
of a Norwegian but the propagandized mind of a Zionist who claim that ridding Norway of
Moslems and Norwegian traitors which quite a number of ordinary Norwegians would love comes down to supporting Israel and Zionists!? (Who, in reality, are the main criminals in creating
multicultural hell-holes in the nations of the West).
Jews swarm out, yelling Anti-Semitism at the smallest insult or joke, demanding protest, money,
compensation, punishment, condemnation, etc. Its like flies in love with something that smells.
And speaking of flies, one of the latest jokes that created Jewish anger was quoted in a recent article
(20) about Norwegian Anti-Semitism.
In 2008, Norwegian comedian Otto Jespersen told his nationwide TV audience that he
commiserated with the billions of fleas and lice that lost their lives in the German gas chambers
without having done anything wrong other than settling on people of Jewish background.
Is this Anti-Semitism? Is it just fun? Is it covered by Freedom of Speech, as the management of
Norways largest TV station said, or should it be punished, like Jewish spokespersons wanted.
What about the Palestinians who are tortured and killed by Jews without having done anything
wrong other than living in a land the Jews wanted?

Knud Eriksen, September 1, 2011

1. A Report from Finland at my website: Mosaic Upps! http://www.mosaisk.com/TorbenLund/Finland-Politics-Immigration-Jews.php)

2. Wikipedia, History of the Jews in Spain
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Jews_in_Spain
3. Douglas Reed, The Controversy of Zion, ch. 18, p.125 The Napoleonic Interrogation.
http://www.controversyofzion.info/Controversybook/Controversybook_eng_18.htm
4. Douglas Reed, The Controversy of Zion, ch. 21, p. 166 The Warnings of Disraeli.
http://www.controversyofzion.info/Controversybook/Controversybook_eng_21.htm
5. Modern Breakthrough http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modern_Breakthrough
6. Jewish Media Influence in Scandinavia at my website Mosaic Upps (www.mosaisk.com )
http://www.mosaisk.com/Torben-Lund/Bonnier-Hjorne-Klein-Jewish-Media-Scandinavia.php
7. Ahmed Rami, Israels Makt i Sverige (The Power of Israel in Sweden), 1989 / also found at
this website - in Swedish ( http://radioislam.org/historia/ims/30sveri.htm
8. Wikipedia,
History of the Jews in Sweden http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Jews_in_Sweden and
Anti-Semitism in Sweden http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antisemitism_in_Sweden
9. A Historical Atlas of the Jewish People, edited by Eli Barnavi, 1998
10. Wikipedia,
History of the Jews in Norway http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Jews_in_Norway and
Anti-Semitism in Norway http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antisemitism_in_Norway
11. Wikipedia, Alf Eivind Saxlund http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alf_Eivind_Saxlund and
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eivind_Saxlund and http://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eivind_Saxlund and
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Det_20de_%C3%85rhundre
12. Theodor Fritsch, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theodor_Fritsch Handbuch der Judenfrage
http://nsl-archiv.com/Buecher/Bis-1945/Fritsch,%20Theodor%20%20Handbuch%20der%20Judenfrage%20%2849.%20Auflage%201944,%20339%20S.,%20Text%
29.pdf

13. Georg Brandes in Politiken, July, 26, 1911, Sven Lange og Antisemitismen (Sven Lange

and the Anti-Semitism) in Danish http://www.henrikpontoppidan.dk/text/seclit/secartikler/brandes_georg/sven_lange_1911.ht

ml
14. Wikipedia,
Anti-Semitism in Europe/Denmark
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antisemitism_in_Europe#Denmark and
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Jews_in_Denmark
15. The Dodo responsible editor Knud Eriksen mostly in Danish, but English articles at
http://www.thedodo.info/The%20Dodo/index.htm has a rather enlightening article on AntiSemitism in Denmark at
http://www.thedodo.info/The%20Dodo/The_Dodo1_Antisemitism_in_Denmark.htm
16. Hanne Nabintu Herland, Norway the most anti-Semitic country in the West, May 19, 2011
http://www.hannenabintuherland.no/?p=1211
17. Hans Hauge in Bddelens huggeblok Aug, 12, 2006 Norsk antisemitisme (Norwegian
Anti-Semitism)
http://boeddel.com/debat/viewtopic.php?p=3623&sid=bd7bc014730b3ce093bbe64610333f9c
18. Jostein Gaarder regrets infamous 2006 op-ed Gods chosen people Norway, Israel and
the Jews, April 20, 2011 - http://www.israelwhat.com/2011/04/20/jostein-gaarder-regretsinfamous-2006-op-ed-gods-chosen-people/
19. Zionist Terrorism in Norway, video by Dr. David Duke, 30.7.2011
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vDr6SjPMRzs&skipcontrinter=1
20. Norway and Anti-Semitism: Manfred Gerstenfeld
http://www.mideastoutpost.com/archives/norway-and-anti-semitism-manfred-gerstenfeld.html