Bent Faurschou-Hviid

Bent Faurschou - Hviid ( born January 7, 1921 in Asserbo, Zealand (Denmark ), † 18 October 1944 Gentofte ) was a Danish resistance fighter during World War II, the flame worked under the code name. He was a member of the group Holger Danske and operated together with his friend Jørgen Haagen Schmith called lemons.

Bent Faurschou - Hviid was from North Zealand, where his family owned a hotel. When he was in the 1930s for his education in Germany, he learned not only the situation in Nazi Germany, but also a group of anti-fascists know what put him as an opponent of Hitler and the Nazi ideology. In 1943 he joined a resistance group in Holbæk, the leaflets produced and sabotage committed. In the same year he moved to Copenhagen and was in the resistance group Holger Danske active, where he also received his pseudonym flame, as in dyeing his blond hair unintentionally a flame red color, the result was.

In December 1943, his close friend and head of Holger Danske - group, Svend Otto " John " Nielsen, denounced to the Germans, arrested, and tortured and killed by the Gestapo. Flame then began in cooperation with citric persons to liquidate, which were regarded as informers. The two together killed eleven people, both German and Danish supporters of the occupying power. Bent Faurschou - Hviid became the most wanted person in Denmark.

To 22 clock on the evening of October 18, 1944 to flame was with the family Bomhoff in Gentofte, when the house was surrounded by the Gestapo. Bent Faurschou - Hviid was unarmed and had no way to escape. He climbed to the first floor and poisoned himself with cyanide in order not to fall alive into the hands of the Gestapo.

The events to flame and lemons were filmed in the movie Days of Wrath Thure Lindhardt with the role of Bent Faurschou - Hviid 2007/2008.