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Old 21st July 2012, 12:15
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Re: Prof. Niles Bohrs flight from Bromma to Leuchars

Interesting thread, this. Our family lore is that my late uncle, Albert Christensen, and his wife 'Missie' were involved in Bohr's exfiltration from Denmark. This involved their promenading along a small stretch of coast path north of Kopenhagen for a number of evenings at a more or less set time until the German sentries were used to seeing them. Then Bohr, dressed to resemble my uncle, took his place on the walk out -presumably A Christensen had laid up somewhere on the route earlier in the day. Bohr and he would have swapped overcoat/hats etc at some secluded rendezvous, then AC would have returned along the path with his wife while Bohr slipped across the Kattegat in a small boat. My uncle never talked about any of this on the grounds that the techniques were still very much valid. But he did use the air route himself once or twice, I believe.

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