BOPA

BOPA

BOPA (Danish: "Borgelige Partisaner", Bourgeois Partisans) was a group of the Danish resistance movement operating at the time of the occupation of Denmark by Nazi Germany during the Second World War.

In 1942, the illegal Communist Party of Denmark had begun organising small sabotage cells across the country, mainly formed by veterans who had been part of the volunteer anti-Franco brigades of the Spanish Civil War. However, as arms were scarce, the weapon of choice was often petrol and matches, and only small scale operations were carried out.

On January 25, 1943 a group of students — who had previously been refused membership of the communist resistance group due to the mistrust held by its members toward any elitism — set fire to a stock of German listening devices at "Dansk Industrisyndikat" in Hellerup using a bottle of spirit. The students were hereafter accepted into the group, and this caused a change of name from the original KOPA ("Kommunistiske Partisaner", Communist Partisans) to BOPA. The new name was at first used jokingly by old members, but it soon became the most widely used name. The named was also changed because it were easier to obtain arms from the allies if you were not an openly communist resistance group.Fact|date=March 2008

Operations grew in magnitude as individuals with inside knowledge of possible targets joined the group. Especially young apprentices from large factories proved useful in identifying targets which were supplying the German military, and this resulted in attacks on factories such as Burmeister & Wain and Riffelsyndikatet in 1943, Riffelsyndikatet (again) and Global in 1944 and Always in 1945.

References

da icon [http://frihed.natmus.dk/rundvisninger/bopa1.htm The Museum of Danish Resistance — BOPA]


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