Nice, Real Nice. (said with ample amounts of sarcasm)
I have been wanting to go to the "Danish Resistance Museum" for the past 5 years, and finally I made my way there. After my high school band was invited to Russia to help celebrate "Victory Day" I became absolutely fascinated by WWII mostly on the European front. I have over the years learned a lot about Denmark at this time. Denmark was occupied by German forces during the war. I have found the rescuing of the Jewish people in Denmark to be one of the most amazing stories I have read from WWII. So I was disappointed that there was only a small 6 ft case with artifacts from the rescuing of the Jews and hardly anything written about this. There was an extensive amount about the underground press and the different resistance groups which I found quite interesting. I spent about 2 hours in the museum learning even more than I had previously. It was a very well done museum, but when I left I didn't have a sense of satisfaction that I usually get when I leave a great museum. Perhaps it wasn't fair to this little museum because deep down I think I was judging it against the other INCREDIBLE WWII museums I have been to. All in all I'm glad I went and it made for an enriching day. If someone were to ask me if it was worth the time to pay it a visit, I would unfortunately have to say no. Which is too bad because I had high hopes for this museum. When we went to Jutland for the first time in 2002 we visited some German Bunkers that line the coast. We were able to go inside some of the bunkers where they had information and pictures and other stuff about them. That was really cool and that I would say is YES worth paying those a visit.
Pretty window at "The Danish Resistance Museum"
German Bucker on the Coast of Denmark in Jutland in 2002
Back at the beginning of January there was a HORRIBLE incident of a 19 year old boy that was stabbed to death at the entrance to Strøget. This is right at at some of the the big sites in Denmark like the Royal Theatre, Kongens Nytorv, and Nyhavn. I've talked about this street numerous times. It is the huge pedestrian street that stretches through Copenhagen. Anton was on his way to the Metro at about 6am when 3 others come up to him and wanted his hat. He said, no and a fight started. Then the worst happened. One of the guys took out a knife and stabbed him repeatedly. It was so sad to read about and hear about all of this. The place where he was stabbed has since been covered in flowers, candles, beer bottles, and letters to Anton. I knew I would walk past it today as I had a few places to go on Strøget. Ugg, SO SAD! And to think, it all started because some stupid kids wanted his hat!
