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Henning Andersen
Henning Andersen (16 July 1917 – 29 June 1944) was a member of the Danish resistance executed by the Nazi Germany, German occupying power. Biography In addition to being a member of the Hvidsten group, Andersen was also a miller. The group helped the British Special Operations Executive parachute weapons and supplies into Denmark for distribution to the resistance. In March 1944, the Gestapo made an "incredible number of arrests" including in the region of Randers where a number of members of the Hvidsten group were arrested. The following month, ''De frie Danske'' (''The Free Danes'') reported that several arrestees from Hvidsten had been transferred from Randers to Vestre Fængsel. On 29 June 1944, Andersen and seven other members of the Hvidsten group were executed in Ryvangen Memorial Park, Ryvangen. After his death On 15 July 1944, ''De frie Danske'' reported on the execution of several members of the Hvidsten group. Six months later the January 1945 issue of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vestre Fængsel
Vestre Prison ( da, Vestre Fængsel) is the main jail of the Danish capital, Copenhagen. Erected in 1895, it is Denmark's largest prison with a total capacity of 530 inmates. It primarily houses pretrial detainees, not convicted felons. History Vestre Fængsel opened in 1895. The building was designed by city architect Ludvig Fenger. During much of the German occupation of Denmark, Vestre Fængsel was operated by German police. Cultural references * Vestre Prison is used as location in the films ''De røde enge'' (1945), ''Mosekongen'' (1950), '' I kongens klær'' (1954), '' Den forsvundne fuldmægtig'' (1971), ''Mig og Mafiaen'' (1973), ''Olsen-banden går amok'' (1973), '' Krummerne 3 - Fars gode idé'' (1994), ''Anklaget'' (2005) and '' Winnie og Karina går til filmen'' (2009). * Vestre Prison is used as a location at 1:20:23 in the 1974 ''Olsen-banden'' film ''The Last Exploits of the Olsen Gang''. * ''Vestre Fængsel'' is the title of a 1996 adaption by Finn & Jacob of a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Danish People Executed By Nazi Germany
Danish may refer to: * Something of, from, or related to the country of Denmark People * A national or citizen of Denmark, also called a "Dane," see Demographics of Denmark * Culture of Denmark * Danish people or Danes, people with a Danish ancestral or ethnic identity * A member of the Danes, a Germanic tribe * Danish (name), a male given name and surname Language * Danish language, a North Germanic language used mostly in Denmark and Northern Germany * Danish tongue or Old Norse, the parent language of all North Germanic languages Food * Danish cuisine * Danish pastry, often simply called a "Danish" See also * Dane (other) * * Gdańsk * List of Danes * Languages of Denmark The Kingdom of Denmark has only one official language, Danish, the national language of the Danish people, but there are several minority languages spoken, namely Faroese, German, and Greenlandic. A large majority (about 86%) of Danes also s ... {{disambiguation Language and nation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1944 Deaths
Events Below, the events of World War II have the "WWII" prefix. January * January 2 – WWII: ** Free France, Free French General Jean de Lattre de Tassigny is appointed to command First Army (France), French Army B, part of the Sixth United States Army Group in North Africa. ** Landing at Saidor: 13,000 US and Australian troops land on Papua New Guinea, in an attempt to cut off a Japanese retreat. * January 8 – WWII: Philippine Commonwealth troops enter the province of Ilocos Sur in northern Luzon and attack Japanese forces. * January 11 ** President of the United States Franklin D. Roosevelt proposes a Second Bill of Rights for social and economic security, in his State of the Union address. ** The Nazi German administration expands Kraków-Płaszów concentration camp into the larger standalone ''Konzentrationslager Plaszow bei Krakau'' in occupied Poland. * January 12 – WWII: Winston Churchill and Charles de Gaulle begin a 2-day conference in Marrakech ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1917 Births
Events Below, the events of World War I have the "WWI" prefix. January * January 9 – WWI – Battle of Rafa: The last substantial Ottoman Army garrison on the Sinai Peninsula is captured by the Egyptian Expeditionary Force's Desert Column. * January 10 – Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition: Seven survivors of the Ross Sea party were rescued after being stranded for several months. * January 11 – Unknown saboteurs set off the Kingsland Explosion at Kingsland (modern-day Lyndhurst, New Jersey), one of the events leading to United States involvement in WWI. * January 16 – The Danish West Indies is sold to the United States for $25 million. * January 22 – WWI: United States President Woodrow Wilson calls for "peace without victory" in Germany. * January 25 ** WWI: British armed merchantman is sunk by mines off Lough Swilly (Ireland), with the loss of 354 of the 475 aboard. ** An anti- prostitution drive in San Francisco occurs, and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Copenhagen
Copenhagen ( or .; da, København ) is the capital and most populous city of Denmark, with a proper population of around 815.000 in the last quarter of 2022; and some 1.370,000 in the urban area; and the wider Copenhagen metropolitan area has 2,057,142 people. Copenhagen is on the islands of Zealand and Amager, separated from Malmö, Sweden, by the Øresund strait. The Øresund Bridge connects the two cities by rail and road. Originally a Viking fishing village established in the 10th century in the vicinity of what is now Gammel Strand, Copenhagen became the capital of Denmark in the early 15th century. Beginning in the 17th century, it consolidated its position as a regional centre of power with its institutions, defences, and armed forces. During the Renaissance the city served as the de facto capital of the Kalmar Union, being the seat of monarchy, governing the majority of the present day Nordic region in a personal union with Sweden and Norway ruled by the Danis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Danish Film Institute
The Danish Film Institute ( da, Det Danske Filminstitut) is the national Danish agency responsible for supporting and encouraging film and cinema culture, and for conserving these in the national interest. Also known as ''Filmhuset'' ("the film house"), it is located in Gothersgade in central Copenhagen. Facilities directed at the general public include a library and Cinemateket which is Denmark's national film museum. It is an institution under the Danish Ministry of Cultural Affairs. The current director of the film institute is Claus Ladegaard. The institute is a member of European Film Promotion, the network of European film organisations for the worldwide promotion of European film. History The Danish Film Institute was founded in 1972, replacing the Danish Film Foundation (Danish: Den Danske Filmfond). In 1996 a new Danish Film Act merged the Film Institute with Statens Filmcentral and the National Danish Film Museum with effect from the following year and at the same ev ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
This Life (film)
''This Life'' ( da, Hvidsten gruppen) is a 2012 Danish drama film based on the activities of the Hvidsten Group, a Danish resistance group in World War II. Cast and characters * Jens Jørn Spottag as Marius Fiil * Bodil Jørgensen as Gudrun Fiil * Thomas Ernst as Niels Fiil * Marie Bach Hansen as Tulle Fiil * Laura Winther Møller as Gerda Fiil * Mia Ejlerskov as Bitten Fiil * Bjarne Henriksen as Albert Carlo Iversen * Jesper Riefensthal as Peder Bergenhammer Sørensen * Henrik Vestergaard as Johan Kjær Hansen Johan Kjær Hansen (7 April 1907 – 29 June 1944) was a member of the Danish resistance executed by the German occupying power. Biography Hansen was born in Hjørring on 7 April 1907 as son of deceased bicycle manufacturer Hans Christian Joh ... * Niels Lund Boesen as Niels Nielsen Kjær * Arne Siemsen as Søren Peter Kristensen * Janus Kim Elsig as Henning Andersen References External links * * 2012 drama films 2012 films Danish drama films Da ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mindelunden I Ryvangen - Grave-3
Ryvangen Memorial Park ( da, Mindelunden i Ryvangen) is a memorial park in Ryvangen officially inaugurated on 5 May 1950 to commemorate fallen members of the Danish resistance to the German occupation of Denmark during World War II. The location in ''Ryvangen'', which means "rye field", was acquired in 1893 by the army for a barracks and exercise field. On 29 August 1943, when the Danish cooperation with Germany broke down the German occupying forces seized the army and naval facilities in all of Denmark including Ryvangen. While the German army used the barracks for themselves, part of the exercise field was used as an execution and burial site for members of the Danish resistance. The execution site consisted of three wooden poles to which the condemned were tied and executed by firing squad. On 5 May 1945, in connection with the liberation, members of the resistance came to Ryvangen and only then did the public get confirmation that the executions of the German occupying ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bispebjerg Cemetery
Bispebjerg Cemetery (Danish: Bispebjerg Kirkegård), established in 1903 on the moderately graded north slope of Bispebjerg Hill, is the newest of five municipal cemeteries in Copenhagen, Denmark. The main entrance to the cemetery is located next to the monumental Grundtvig's Church, built later in 1921-40. A tall poplar avenue extends from the main entrance towards Utterslev Mose in the west. The old chapel has been converted into a centre for dance and is now known as Dansekapellet (Chapel of Dance). One of the cemetery’s main attractions is an avenue of Japanese cherry trees that, when in bloom during spring, form a long, pink tunnel. History Bispebjerg Cemetery was established in 1903 to release the pressure on Copenhagen's other cemeteries. The plan was designed by Edvard Glæsel. Buildings Chapel and administration building The architect Andreas Clemmensen have designed most of the buildings in the cemetery. His contributions include the main entrance, the administratio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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