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The most important report of the war from DÄNEMARK

In summer 1943, the Danish and English news service was clear that something unusual was in way in the baltic area.
Launching pads and new laid out at Peenemünde workshops had been discovered at reconnaissance flights and they were presumably connected with the new secret weapon on which already made a Nazi propaganda machinery to loans to raise the morals at the home front.
Sample shootings were also noticed at the German baltic coastline, one, however, had not been able to obtain any givings about the way of the weapon and its possible application yet. Meanwhile in the middle of August, a rocket of the type known later so landed V 1 on south well bar at a Probeschießen of Peemünde via the Baltic Sea inadvertently. Before the German armed forces had turned the element place off, captain ­ second lieutenant Chr succeeded. Hasager Christiansen which was a station officer of the navy in Bornholm, and the Polizeikomissar of Rønne, Johs. Taking a photograph, drawing, measuring and describing of the rocket, Hanson. This bold and decisive action was explained just when German control came; but on the question, Hague Christiansen answered with a firm and clear no whether you have photographed. The material immediately sent the news department of the navy via Stockholm to London and the dispatch was to be on the safe side carried out via Malmö and once via Helsingør twice, once. While the programme about Malmö was going through smoothly without knowledge of the German, it failed in Helsingør.

The first mate of a ferry cure the usual had unfortunately a day off just and as his representative the Germans were searching without a fault of one's own.
The compromising shipment was found at it.
The accident in Helsingør had the consequence that two crew members of the ferry were arrested and Hasager Christiansen was also immediately arrested.

In a necessary consequence the officers of the news service had to leave the country and to establish themselves in Stockholm since representatives were, however, appointed for a long time the apparatus remained intact.

As an individual observation the report was the most important report about the aircraft bomb in Bornholm which reached London during the war from Denmark.
The fast determined appearance of the bornholmischen lieutenant-commander earned the Danish news service large credit and was appreciated by Churchill's war cabinet.

This way the government in London was informed what the German experiments came to
Through this a year, before Hitler's retribution weapons could strike into south narrow country, the need ­ could agile countermeasures are taken.
Hasager Christiansen was tormented electronically during the interrogations and had to be admitted to the hospital and a sabotage group succeeded in his liberation here.

He was convicted to Sweden and was there by the end of the war in conjunction with a Danish navy station set up in Malmö now.