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Note 2: Page 176, Line 2: “ . . . communications problems . . . ” Sneum admitted to the author that it was Thorbjoern who first mentioned Duus Hansen.

Note 3: Page 176, Lines 21-22: “ . . . returned to Kaj Oxlund’s apartment alone . . . ” Christophersen’s actions are documented in a subsequent Copenhagen police report of March 1942.

Note 4: Page 176, Lines 36-37: “ . . . took a bundle of cash from the funds Sneum had collected ...” This accusation was not contained in the police report but made with great consistency over the years by Sneum.

CHAPTER 25: HISTORY-MAKERS

Note 1: Page 178, Lines 13-14: “ . . . angry young Danes began to March . . . ” Details of this incident are documented in the SOE Files at the National Archives, Kew, London. The subsequent riot was even reported in some Danish newspapers.

Note 2: Page 181, Line 16: “Later Duus Hansen revealed . . . ” Lorens Arne Duus Hansen handed a report to the National Archives (Rigsarkivet) in Copenhagen after the war. Mr Axel Lindvald of the National Archives organised the collection in 1947 and 1948 of such accounts from all the main leaders. The process behind putting together this collection of documents is described in more detail in the “Foreword” to Jorgen Haestrup’s book “Kontakt med England” (Contact with England).

Note 3: Page 183, Lines 8-15: “From his explanation . . . were safe” Source: Duus Hansen’s official account

Note 4: Page 184, Lines 17-22: ‘I recruited Duus Hansen . . . the rest of the war’ Sneum to author, 1998-2006.

Note 5: Page 184, Line 26: “ . . . of the partnership with Sneum.” This suggestion (see Lines 27-33) was made in Haestrup’s book “The Secret Alliance.”

CHAPTER 26: INFIGHTING

Note 1: Page 186, Lines 1-16: “Else Sneum . . . control over her own destiny.” Else’s thoughts and actions as indicated in subsequent Danish police reports and further interpreted by Tommy Sneum later.

Note 2: Page 187, Lines 13-16: “Hildur Christophersen . . . ever saw Sigfred alive.” The author interviewed Hildur Christophersen in Denmark in 1999.

Note 3: Page 188, Line 10: “conversation . . . ” Dialogue as told to the author by Sneum on several different occasions 1998-2006.

Note 4: Page 190, Line 3: “ . . . Lunding erupted:” Again, this dialogue and the sheer ferocity of the argument was vividly recalled by Sneum—in the finest detail—on several occasions during interviews with the author 1998-2006.

Note 5: Page 191, Lines 28-30: “Later he would gush: ‘Bruhn . . . ” Source: SOE Files, National Archives, Kew, London.

CHAPTER 27: CHRISTMAN HORRORS

Note 1: Page 194, Line 26 to Page 195, Line 11: “Others blamed a faulty clip mechanism . ..” The details of the investigation into Bruhn’s death and the subsequent German state of alert in Denmark are to be found in the SOE Files, National Archives, Kew, London.

Note 2: Pages 196, Line 34 to Page 197, Line 8: “Tommy explained . . . ” Sneum to author, 1998-2006.

Note 3: Page 198, Line 4: “I fear . . . ” Turnbull’s communication can be found in the SOE Files, National Archives, Kew, London. Turnbull later confirmed to the author (in 1999) that he had sent this message.

CHAPTER 28: HUNTED

Note 1: Page 199, Lines 8-9: “Sneum recalled later:” Sneum’s interviews with Mark Ryan, 1998-2006.

Note 2: Page 204, Line 31: “A police doctor confirmed . . . ” Police reports seen by Sneum’s brother-in-law, Niels-Richard Bertelsen, confirmed that the Copenhagen police had fallen for Tommy’s trick.

Note 3: Page 206, Line 12: “She enrolled . . . ” Danish police reports from 1942 included details of Else Sneum’s career moves.

Note 4: Page 206, Line 26: “ . . . creditors had started knocking . . . ” Again, Danish police reports from March 1942—copies in the author’s possession—included details of the Oxlunds’ marital breakdown and reasons for it.

Note 5: Page 207, Line 18: “Chiewitz continued:” Dialogue as told in detail to the author by Sneum on several separate occasions between 1998 and 2006.

Note 6: Page 209, Line