Ímages of the "Other" and Danish politics of the past: anti-semitism, xenophobia and the dream of homogeneity:

Seen against the backdrop of the traumas of 20th century European history, Denmark seems to have been spared most of the civic strife and the catastrophes of the past century. For many years the Danish narrative was most often dominated by a sense of victimisation and pride in the resistance against Nazi persecution. The predominance of this benign understanding this has been challenged over recent years