Travel back

History is never black and white. These five destinies show that, and you can also encounter them in the exhibition at the Museum of Danish Resistance. Each of them made a fateful choice that would turn out to have dramatic consequences for their lives.

German motorcycles through Haderslev April 9, 1940

The Danish occupation

The Danish Nazi Henning Brøndum

Henning Brøndum

Resistance fighter Musse Hartig and her husband Knud.

Musse Hartig

Resistance fighter Karl Christensen

Karl Christensen

Resistance fighter Thorkild Lund-Jensen

Thorkild Lund-Jensen

Resistance fighter Jørgen Kieler

Jørgen Kieler

Explore on your own

Explore the Museum of Danish Resistance's databases for yourself. You can find resistance fighters, maps, an overview of Danes in Allied service, and the image database with thousands of photographs from the occupation.

Contact our archive

Our archives are open for visits, but only by appointment.

You can contact us at [email protected]. Expect a waiting time of 1–2 months.

If you have an item from the occupation that you would like to donate to the museum, please write to [email protected] to arrange the details.