When Hitler occupied Denmark in 1940, in exchange for food and supplies, the country was allowed to keep its king and constitution. However, there were those who refused to be peacefully occupied and chose the path of resi... more »stance. In October of 1943, when the Gestapo decided to round up the Danish Jews, ordinary citizens banded together with resisters and overnight they created a rescue operation that hid and transported over 7,000 of their countrymen across the water to Sweden. Over the next year, hundreds of saboteurs, resisters, and policemen were sent to concentration camps. Once again the Danish people organized a rescue. It began with friends sending food parcels and grew into a convoy of White Buses that drove through war-torn Germany to bring home Danish and Norwegian prisoners. THE POWER OF CONSCIENCE features the testimony of prisoners and saboteurs, the rescuers and the rescued, to tell the story of a people who refused to cooperate, placing the dictates of their conscience above an immoral authority.« less