一位勇敢的国王

At 4 a.m. on 9 April 1940, Nazi Germany invaded Denmark in a surprise attack, overwhelming Denmark's Army and Navy and destroying the Danish Army Air Corps. Christian X quickly realized that Denmark was in an impossible position. Its territory and population were far too small to hold out against Germany for any sustained period of time. Its flat land would have resulted in it being easily overrun by German panzers; Jutland, for instance, would have been overrun in short order by a panzer attack from Schleswig-Holstein immediately to the south. Unlike its Nordic neighbors, Denmark had no mountain ranges from which a drawn-out resistance could be mounted.[6] With no prospect of being able to hold out for any length of time, and faced with the explicit threat of the Luftwaffe bombing the civilian population of Copenhagen, and with only one general in favour of continuing to fight, Christian X and the entire Danish government capitulated at about 6 am,[7] in exchange for retaining political independence in domestic matters,[8] beginning the occupation of Denmark, which lasted until 5 May 1945.

读《改变》中看到这一位国王是如何应对纳粹的命令的，德国说你们国家的所有犹太人必须戴上黄星的臂章，这位国王居然率先戴起了臂章，并说这个国家的每一个人都要戴起来，就这样，德国人不得不撤销这个命令。从德国人的区别框架中跳出，选择统一对待所有人的聪慧和勇敢，让我突然对他产生了兴趣，维基百科里提到他在德国早上四点钟入侵后，下午六点就决定投降了，真是一个顺其自然的国王啊。