Svend-Aage Schaldemose-Nielsen – Police against the occupiers

Svend-Aage Schaldemose-Nielsen became chief of police in Odense in 1943. He was a doctor of law and a father, and had contact to the Danish resistance. The following year, anti-German demonstrations and attacks on the occupiers increased. As the Danish police refuse to combat the resistance, they were themselves considered a threat. In September 1944, thousands of them were arrested during an operation. Along with some 1,900 other policemen, Schaldemose-Nielsen was deported to the Little Camp of the Buchenwald concentration camp, where a scarlet fever epidemic broke out. Shortly before the group was transferred to a prisoner-of-war camp, he died of the consequences of the illness.