Kim malthe bruun biography of christopher brown

Kim Malthe-Bruun (born Kim Friis-Hansen, 8 July – 6 April ) was a Canadian-born seaman and a member of the Danish resistance executed by the German occupying power.

He was born in Edmonton, Alberta , Canada and baptized in St. George's church. He grew up a farmhand , but by the time he was seventeen, he had become a merchant seaman. When Nazi Germany invaded Denmark, he joined the Danish resistance movement at the age of He used his skills as a sailor to transport arms for the resistance. On 19 December , Kim was arrested by the Gestapo in an apartment on Classen Street with two friends.

He was unarmed and carrying his own identification papers.

On this day in , Kim Malthe-Bruun was executed by firing squad in the Vestre Fængsel Prison in Copenhagen.

The first cell he stayed in was Cell , in the German Section. On 15 January he received royal permission to change his last name to his mother's maiden name, Malthe-Bruun. He did not return to Vestre until Wednesday, 28 February. The next day he was placed in solitary confinement and forbidden to write letters. On 11 June Malthe-Bruun's remains were recovered in Ryvangen.

On 29 August Malthe-Bruun and other victims of the occupation were given a state funeral in the memorial park founded at the execution and burial site in Ryvangen where his remains had been recovered. Bishop Hans Fuglsang-Damgaard led the service with participation from the royal family, the government and representatives of the resistance movement.

It contains his diary entries and many of his letters home to both her and his girlfriend Hanne. In the afterword to her work of historical fiction, Number the Stars , Lois Lowry likened the character Peter Neilsen, a resistance member, to Kim, possibly for his courage against the Nazis.