Most controversially, Lidegaard suggests that the mass escape was possible because the Germans did not press their search with any vigour. He suggests that Best and other officials could see little advantage in aiding yet another crime to be notched up against them when the Allies won. This is harder to demonstrate with certainty, since Best was playing a double game. But the fact that not one of 700 transports from northern Denmark was intercepted by the German Navy or the coastal police suggests to Lidegaard that the October 1 action was a gesture to satisfy Berlin. The fate of Denmark’s Jews has become a story not only about Danish civil courage but also about German complicity, making the Danish case unique in yet another way.