 He escaped imminent arrest by immigrating to Denmark, where he was assisted by a stipend from the American Guild for German Cultural Freedom in 1938–40, and again to Sweden during the rescue of the Danish Jews.He was appointed a guest professor at Stockholm University and lived in the city until his death in 1984.Berendsohn is considered to have founded the study of German Exilliteratur with his seminal book "Die humanistische Front" (1939).