VHS: The Power of Conscience: The Danish Resistance and the Rescue of the Jews [VHS] ...

VHS: The Power of Conscience: The Danish Resistance and the Rescue of the Jews [VHS] ...

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Fabulous Story and This Tells It Well

The Danish rescue of the country's Jewish population during World War II is a tremendous story that is particularly moving against the backdrop of the Nazi slaughter of Jews and others in Europe at the time. There are many heroes in this story and this film introduces the viewer to many of them. A number of the actual rescuers and rescued are profiled here, and unlike other films on the topic, we learn that many of the rescuers ended up being leaders of Danish society after the war. I use this this film to teach undergraduate and graduate students and executives about moral courage and ethics. Sometimes we know what the right thing is, but doing it is another matter. This film is all about doing the right thing. This story has profound implications for all of us, including business people who are trying to develop an ethical culture within their organizations.

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When Hitler occupied Denmark in 1940, in exchange for food and supplies, the country was allowed to keep its king and constitution. However, there were those who refused to be peacefully occupied and chose the path of resistance. In October of 1943, when the Gestapo decided to round up the Danish Jews, ordinary citizens banded together with resisters and overnight they created a rescue operation that hid and transported over 7,000 of their countrymen across the water to Sweden. Over the next year, hundreds of saboteurs, resisters, and policemen were sent to concentration camps. Once again the Danish people organized a rescue. It began with friends sending food parcels and grew into a convoy of White Buses that drove through war-torn Germany to bring home Danish and Norwegian prisoners. THE POWER OF CONSCIENCE features the testimony of prisoners and saboteurs, the rescuers and the rescued, to tell the story of a people who refused to cooperate, placing the dictates of their conscience above an immoral authority.

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