The document provides background information on the Nazi occupation of Denmark during World War II. It describes how Germany invaded Denmark in 1940 and the Danish Resistance formed in 1943 to help Danish Jews flee after the Germans decided to arrest and imprison them. It also outlines some of the oppressive rules and laws Jewish people faced under Nazi rule, such as being forced to wear yellow stars, restrictions on transportation and businesses, and having no political rights. The Holocaust is defined as the systematic murder of approximately six million European Jews by the Nazi regime between 1941 to 1945.