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Bo Lidegaard
Bo Lidegaard (born 23 January 1958) is a Danish historian, diplomat, author and editor in chief of daily broadsheet newspaper "Politiken".
Early life and education.
Lidegaard is the son of authors Mads Lidegaard and Else Lidegaard, and is the brother of Danish political figure Martin Lidegaard. Bo Lidegaard graduated from Gentofte Statsskole in 1976, and became cand. phil. in history at the University of Copenhagen in 1984. He received his Ph.D. after completing a dissertation on Henrik Kauffmann in 1997.
of the Corps that it did not itself form the Corps.
Recruitment.
It is estimated that approximately 6,000 Danes served in the Free Corps Denmark.
A 1998 study showed that the average recruit to Free Corps Denmark was a Nazi and/or a member of the German minority in Denmark, and that recruitment was very broad socially. Bo Lidegaard notes: "The relationship between the population and the corps was freezing cold, and legionnaires on leave time and again came into fights with civilians meeting the corps' volunteers with massive