Hitler and was praised in the Nazi paper Völkischer Beobachter. Again she was invited to Berlin and met by a big crowd. Next year she repeated the performance by swimming the same route in the opposite direction. Up till World War II she was used in the nazi racial propaganda as an ideal. She also expressed warm feelings against the Nazi regime herself. World War II In June 1940, (after Denmark had been occupied by Germany) Jenny Kammersgaard went to Berlin to start an education at the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität as a sports instructor. May 1942 she returned to Denmark. August 28–29, 1943 she broke the European record in fresh water swimming by swimming 75 km in Gudenåen the biggest Danish river. During summer 1944 she several times secretly swam across the Øresund strait between Denmark and Sweden. She was questioned by Gestapo who suspected her of being a courier for the Danish resistance based in Sweden. They issued an arrest order for her which made her flee (by boat) to the Swedish island of Hven in Øresund. She was here from August 15, 1944 till the end of the war May 1945. After the war After the war she maintained her friendship with her Danish manager Henrik Ludvig Jørgensen/Hagensborg, who had been arrested under suspicion of collaboration with the German occupation force during the war. She gave a favorable character witness testimony for Hagensborg, though he ended being sentenced to five years in prison. In August 1947 Jenny Kammersgaard together with her boyfriend helped Baltic refugees in Denmark getting to Sweden. After Balticum had been occupied by Soviet Union they were afraid of being extradited and felt more safe in Sweden. From here it was possible to get out of Europe. She and her boy friend did this illegally (and for a pay) and were both sentenced to 40 days of prison. She continued long distance swimming and in both 1950 and 1951 she crossed the English Channel. Later she tried breaking records in icy water swimming and swam 400 m in 12 minutes and 54 seconds in 1976. Jenny Kammersgaards has a mixed legacy because of her contact with Nazi Germany on the one hand and her swimming on the other. She maintained that in the time of Nazism she was young and had no interest in politics. See also Danish female swimmers of the same era: Inge Sørensen Ragnhild