Kim malthe bruun biography of william hill
Biography of a Danish war hero.
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Kim Malthe-Bruun
Danish resistance member
Kim Malthe-Bruun (born Kim Friis-Hansen, 8 July 1923 – 6 April 1945) was a Canadian-born seaman and a member of the Danish resistance executed by the German occupying power.
Biography
He was born in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada and baptized in St. George's church.[1] At the age of nine, Kim, his six-year-old sister Ruth, and his mother moved back to Denmark where she was originally from.
He grew up a farmhand, but by the time he was seventeen, he had become a merchant seaman. When Nazi Germany invaded Denmark, he joined the Danish resistance movement at the age of 21.
On this day in , Kim Malthe-Bruun was executed by firing squad in the Vestre Fængsel Prison in Copenhagen.He used his skills as a sailor to transport arms for the resistance.
On 19 December 1944, Kim was arrested by the Gestapo in an apartment on Classen Street with two friends. He was unarmed and carrying his own identification papers.
He was sent to the Vestre Fængsel Prison soon after his arrest. The first cell he stayed in was Cell 252, in the German Secti
