Albert Gortz: The Danish Resistance Schoolteacher

Albert Gortz was a Danish schoolteacher in Jutland who used his school to hide Allied airmen shot down over Denmark. Under the guise of teaching, he ran a network that moved over 2,000 people from occupied Denmark to neutral Sweden by fishing boat. He used children's choir trips as cover for moving people and supplies. When the Gestapo raided his school, they found hidden rooms behind bookshelves containing British-made radios and British maps. Gortz escaped through the school's basement and continued his work until liberation.