Research and lectures

For many years, HSB has prioritised research into the history of the Occupation period as well as the post-war purge trials, and the archive’s staff have published a wide range of books, articles, encyclopaedia entries, etc. Based on his own books and research, Head of Archives Henrik Lundtofte gives lectures throughout the country.

Lecture programme:

– Liberation 1945 in perspective

– The Hipo Corps. People, myths and counter-resistance.

– Counter-resistance and the Gestapo in Denmark

– Bringing German war criminals to justice after the Occupation

– Black, white and grey – the post-war period and the Danes who crossed the line

– Public opinion, media and censorship – the battle for Danes’ attitudes

– Resistance and counter-resistance in Southwest Jutland

Overview of selected articles, book chapters, etc. published by HSB’s staff

Henrik Lundtofte (ed.): The Outcasts, the Unwelcome and the Admired. Denmark after the Occupation. Nord Academic 2026.

Libraries’ assessment (27 March 2026): “An exciting and well-researched publication which, through a series of concrete examples, documents what happened in the years after the Occupation. The level is relatively high, but the language is not academic, and it can be read by anyone with an interest in the subject.”

Weekendavisen (26 June 2026): “The fact that the work also tackles questions and topics that have so far been under-illuminated in research only increases the book’s value for everyone interested in the Occupation and the period that followed”.

Henrik Lundtofte. "The Parasites": Danish underground discourses and German refugees 1945. J. Leinonen, M. Tervonen, H. O. Frøland, C. Hoffmann, S. Jalagin, H. V. Jønsson, & M. T. Tureby (eds.): Forced Migrants in Nordic Histories. Helsinki University Press 2025, pp. 181-201.

The book received the Nordic History Book Award 2025.

Henrik Lundtofte & John T. Lauridsen (eds.): On the Führer’s Orders: Hitler’s Men in Denmark 1933-1945 (1-2). Aarhus University Press 2024.

Kristeligt Dagblad 2024: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐A major portrait gallery of German Nazis during the Occupation is an impressive achievement.

Henrik Lundtofte & Martin Göllnitz: Unsicherheiten und Repressalien: Zur Dynamik und Radikalisierung der deutschen Politik in Dänemark 1943-1945. Totalitarismus und Demokratie. Zeitschrift für internationale Diktatur- und Freiheitsforschung 21(1), 2024, pp. 109-130.

Henrik Lundtofte. Purges, Patriotism, and Political Violence – the Danish Case 1944-45. In O. Konrad, B. Barth, & J. Mrňka (eds.), Collective Identities and Post-War Violence in Europe, 1944–48. Reshaping the Nation. Palgrave Macmillan 2022, pp. 129-164.

Mona Jensen and Henrik Lundtofte: Resistance. Aspects of the resistance struggle in Esbjerg, Ribe and Bramming 1940-45. HSB/Liljebjerget 2020 (Revised edition of the 2015 publication).

Mona Jensen: Signal. A Nazi propaganda magazine in Denmark 1940-45. Turbine 2017.

Palle Andersen and Mona Jensen: German war crimes 1939-1945 – and the Danish underground press. University Press of Southern Denmark 2015.

Henrik Lundtofte: The Henchmen. The Schalburg Corps’ intelligence service and the Hipo Corps 1943-45. Politikens Forlag 2014.

Palle Andersen: Danish knowledge 1941-1945 of the Holocaust – illuminated through the underground press. University of Southern Denmark studies in history and social sciences. 2010.

HSB has also published a couple of books with compelling portraits of resistance members, politicians and others:

Henrik Lundtofte (ed.): Cooperation and Sabotage – Six Men 1940-45. 2006 (H.C. Hansen, Henrik Hauch, Ejnar Krenchel, Werner Best, Hans Peter Poulsen and Frants Gertsen).

Niels Wium Olesen (ed.): People, Politics and Occupation. Four biographical sketches. 1996 (Erik Scavenius, Børge Thing, Arne Sørensen and Hans Hedtoft).

Both books can be purchased by contacting HSB.

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Lecture programme:

Overview of selected articles, book chapters, etc. published by HSB’s staff