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What a wonderful day I've had. I went running down Grodal's Parkvej which is a new path sort of near my house by the S-train stop. It ended up at this pretty lake that I ran around. I freaked out a mama duck with a brood of little ducklings. They were tiny and yellow and fuzzy-SO CUTE! I had breakfast with Ida and Karen. Karen has been working hard on a music performance she has to do.
I took the s-train over to the Frihedeets Museum (Danish Resistance Museum). We had a guide take us around. He told us about how Denmark surrendered to Germany in 1.5 hours after being threatened because they are such a tiny country and didn' t want violence. The kidn of Denmark was Christian X at the time. He is known for going riding around the town and talking with the people. There is a rumor that he wore a star of david to express solidarity and sympathy with the jewish people but the guide says this is not true.A small number of Danes did join the Germans and go to fight for Germany (Freedom Corps and Helper Corps). The majority of Danes just kept living their daily lives and working and ignoring the occupation. Germany exploited the Danish agriculture to feed the German people. Also many German soldiers came to Denmark for vacation...the guide called this the whipped cream front vs. the Eastern front. The Danish government paid for this...Germany was supposed to pay them back after the war but they lost the war and didn't have to pay. Some of the Danes were active in the resistance movement. This involved solidarity with each other, printing fliers, and destroying some facilities. The guide showed us a pic called 5 pigs with only drawings of 4 pigs but when you fold it properly you get a picture of Hitler who is the 5th pig. There were 7500 Jews in Denmark. 700 got to Sweden. of the 500 others only 50 were actually killed. Those who were sent to camps were sent to work camps not extermination camps and the Danish govt. sent money and resources for them in the camps and to keep them there. May 5th was the official day when Denmark was liberated. This info came out on the news on May 4th however and people were celebrating and attacking the German soldiers. Little did these people know that the surrender was not effective until May 5th so more people were killed at that point in Denmark than during the war itself.
After that we got on a train to go to Gilleleje. It is SUCH a cute town. You go through beautiful fairly forested countryside to get there with fields covered in yellow flowers.
In the town we went to see the church where 80 jews were hidden. The Germans found out and raided the church everyone but one boy who escaped into the bell tower by climbing ropes was captured. From the windows in the attic of the church you can see the harbor where the boats were to take the jews to sweden.
After the church we walked down the harbor. There is a huge festival there and people try to stand as long as they can on top of a pole stuck into the water. There were places to get food and tons of really nice looking sailboats.
We walked up to a museum that had a replica of what the boats would have looked like and how the jewish people were hidden down below.
There was a path that Soren Kirkegaard used to walk up and down a lot.
After that we went to the beach and sat and hung out. People were trying to skip rocks.
It was a fairly long train ride back to Copenhagen.