Kjeld Toft-Christensen, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Date of Birth: 10-Mar-1910
Place of Birth: Copenhagen, Capital Region of Denmark, Denmark
Date of Death: 27-Nov-1945
Zodiac Sign: Pisces 
About Kjeld Toft-Christensen
- Kjeld Toft-Christensen (10 March 1910 – 27 November 1945) MC was a Special Operations Executive officer and Danish resistance fighter during the Second World War.
- Toft-Christensen was born in Copenhagen to Aage and Elna Elise (née Bonnelycke) Toft-Christensen but later emigrated and joined the French Foreign Legion.
- During the Second World War he served with the Free French in North Africa before he left for England where he joined the British Army.
- He was trained as a parachutist and in sabotage tactics in the Buffs (Royal East Kent Regiment) and obtained the rank of Lieutenant.
- On 4 April 1944 he was dropped into Skive in Denmark to assist the local resistance under the codename "Dahl".
- Kjeld Toft-Christensen joined the resistance in Aarhus as a liaison and intelligence officer.
- He became a part of the newly formed L-groups, focused on assassinations, and worked primarily in and around Aarhus. On 29 April 1945 the Danish interpreter and informant Olaf Christian Quist (Dr.
- Peters) walked from his room at the Gestapo headquarters in the Old City Hall to the restaurant in Hotel Royal with three Gestapo officers.
- Christian Quist worked as interpreter during interrogations of resistance fighters and had long been wanted dead by the resistance.
- Kjeld Toft-Christensen happened to be in the hotel when Christian Quist was seated.
- Toft-Christensen approached the table and shot Christian Quist twice in the head and then opened fire on the 3 German officers who was incapacitated, wounded or killed.
- Toft-Christensen subsequently left the hotel and went to a scheduled meeting with his resistance group.
- The episode earned Kjeld Toft-Christensen some fame and admiration among fellow resistance fighters and it stands as one of the more daring operations in Aarhus during the war.Kjeld Toft-Christensen survived the war but committed suicide on 27 November 1945.
- He was posthumously awarded the British Military Cross in 1946.
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