(This text was translated using AI technology)
In the last year of the Occupation, resistance against the Germans grew among the Danish population. In Gribskov, people especially felt the terror of the Gestapo, but it did not stop the resistance movement.
Armed Resistance
In the time leading up to the Liberation, resistance groups were formed around North Zealand with more militant tasks. The groups had different tasks and approaches to resistance. Bourgeois and worker groups, as well as cross-political groups such as Free Denmark, used a more direct fight against the Germans. This included, among other things, the distribution of illegal newspapers and sabotage around the area. The largest was the sabotage against Salgårdshøj at Vejby coast, where the resistance movement blew up equipment stored at Vejby station.
In Gilleleje, the resistance spread in various ways. The spring of 1944 saw sabotage against Gilleleje Cinema, and in the autumn, the resistance group Søstjernen began distributing illegal newspapers in Gilleleje and the surrounding area as a reaction to the harsh censorship of the war.
A.C. Schmidt established a resistance division called Søstjernen. At the time of liberation, it had 20 members within Frederiksborg County West, 3rd company, and was designated 5th division Gilleleje. It was divided into three groups.
The illegal newspaper "Free Press"
Lysglimt
Gilleleje was one of the towns hardest hit by German terror. Initially, the Germans confiscated various properties for barracks, but later it developed further. This happened when Gestapo agents were deployed in the town, and the Germans got their first headquarters in Villa Højbo on Gilbjergstien in February 1944. From this office, the appointed chief Brösamle – under the cover name Baumann – could concentrate on the resistance fighters who were sailed to Sweden with fishing boats. The resistance movement and the illegal activities had become a bigger and bigger problem for the occupying power.
On February 1, 1945, the Gestapo moved its headquarters from Villa Højbo to Lysglimt by the beach hills, where there was more space for increased activities. Both in Villa Højbo and in Lysglimt, Gestapo agents conducted violent interrogations to obtain confessions about the illegal sailing with resistance fighters. During the interrogations, the arrested received severe blows to the head and body, carried out with everything from sticks to punches.
On May 5, 1945, the Gestapo agents at Lysglimt were searched for, but it was already too late. Early in the morning, they had fled and sought protection at Gilbjerghoved, where there was a German radar station.
The dungeon in the Gestapo headquarters at Lysglimt in Gilleleje, 1945