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Marius Fiil
Danish resistance leader (1893–1944) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Marius Anton Pedersen Fiil (21 May 1893 – 29 June 1944) was the inn keeper at Hvidsten Inn and a leader of the Danish resistance that was executed by the occupying Nazis.
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Biography
Marius Anton Pedersen Fiil was born in the Hvidsten Inn on 21 May 1893.
During the occupation of Denmark, Fiil and his family became the center of a resistance group, the Hvidsten group. The group helped the British Special Operations Executive parachute weapons and supplies into Denmark for distribution to the resistance.[2]
In March 1944 the Gestapo made an "incredible number of arrests" including in the region of Randers the "nationally known folklore collector and keeper of Hvidsten inn Marius Fiil", his son Niels, his 17-year-old daughter Gerda, his daughter Kirstine and her husband brewery worker Peter Sørensen.[9]
The following month De frie Danske reported on Fiil again, that he along with other arrestees from Hvidsten had been transferred from Randers to Vestre Fængsel.[10] His group would also continue to receive British supply drops until their apprehension.[11]
On 29 June 1944 Fiil, his son Niels, his son-in-law and five other members of the Hvidsten group were executed in Ryvangen, a neighborhood in Copenhagen.[3]
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Legacy
On 15 July 1944, De frie Danske reported on the execution of Fiil, his son and son-in-law, the life sentence of his older daughter and the two-year sentence of his younger daughter and compared Fiil to Svend Gønge and Niels Ebbesen while lamenting the profound loss of Fiil's widow.[12] Six months later the January 1945 issue of the resistance newspaper Frit Danmark (Free Denmark) reported that on 29 June the previous year Fiil and seven other named members of the Hvidsten group had been executed.[5]
On 10 July he was together with the seven other executed group members cremated at Bispebjerg Cemetery.[citation needed]
In 1945 a memorial stone over the eight executed members of the Hvidsten group was raised near Hvidsten Inn.[4]
Similarly a larger memorial stone for resistance members including the eight executed members of the Hvidsten group has been laid down in Ryvangen Memorial Park.[3]
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