The King displayed real courage staying in the country.

Wonderful, wonderful, Copenhagen!

ppl can say the scandis are reserved, even cold, but look at this beautiful outburst of emotion....

What a wonderful day that must have been!

3:23 - Fun fact: Monty is riding in the Krone 1 - (Crown One) car of the King. It is the only time, to my knowledge, that the Danish Crown car has been lent to someone else.

Monty living the life.

No need to put Liberation in quotes...it WAS a liberation. Oh and the reason why the two cruisers were still in Copenhagen is wonderful: In a daring daylight-sabotage, units of the communist party resistance organization BOPA and the conservative Holger Danske, blew up a bridge less than a mile from the town hall square, leaving the ships stranded inside the habour. They were not able to jooin the fight on the eastern front and the lives of thousands, perhaps tens of thousands of soviet soldiers were saved here. (I knew on of the guys who blew up the bridge)

Cool, Prinz Eugen and Nürnberg was docking in Denmark when the war ended here!

1:40 The commentary is wrong!!!! These were "Danish Troops" guarding the German Ships after their surrender to the allies. I have a still photo issued by the 'The Associated Press' and passed by the censor .411844 to attest to this fact. Think about it ..would there really have been armed German Soldiers at the dockside with The British Fleet coming in? :-)

At around 1.40 the speaker talks about fully armed German guards, this is not true the guards we c are member of the Danish Brigade en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danish_Brigade_in_Sweden

@ingolfleiblle6661

3 жыл бұрын

There were armed German Guards outside German military establishments, standing side by side with members of Danforce, Danish exile Force from neutral Sweden, as well as Danish resistance members. The Germans were more than willing to surrender, but only to Allied Forces. Nobody felt any urge to be the last dead hero in a war that was over. Pictures here show just that situation in tha harbour of Copenhagen: Kriegsmarine ships guarded by both Kriegsmarine and Danish resistance personel, not especially cordial, but all relieved that the war was over!

And let's not forget that Denmark was the only one country to protect its Jewish population of 8 thousand from the holocaust in October 1943 the Germans tried to deport the Danish Jews to extermination sites king Christian of Denmark immediately put on a Jewish star and urged his fellow Danes to do likewise then the Danish government arranged for the rescue of Denmarks Jews by putting them on boats and shopping them to neutral Sweden and safety

Funny, British are in Copenhagen, and the Kriegsmarine in port still on duty with nazi flags raised lol ... Leon Degrelle is on his way to Oslo :)

@mochtegerndane7097

4 жыл бұрын

Dimas - this story is actually different, The ships were in Copenhagen harbour, being restocked for action on the eastern front, when - and this happend in broad daylight in the effing centre of Copenhagen - a joint band of conservative and communist freedom fighters , led by the communists, attacked and blew up the movable parts of the Langebro bridge in Copenhagen. Since then the two ships were basically trapped.

The Danes.. Enjoyed being freed by Brits. Didn`t put too much strain either when stormed over by Germans.. luckily were not occupied by Communists like Poles and Baltics were...

@mattom1796

7 жыл бұрын

Kristian Odgaard What the fuck dude. No country has saved more Jews than Poland. Not to mention Poland was the only country where helping the Jews was punishable by death. Denmark is amazing and it's got incredible history, but please, don't falsify history.

@Maridun50

3 жыл бұрын

The island of Bornholm was "liberated" by the Russians, except the german commander didn't want to capitulate to the russians - so the island was bombed - and then seized by the russians - who didn't leave until a full year after - 1946.

The Danish military wanted to resist the Germans in 1940 but the King said no and they capitulated with hardly a fight.

Why ‘Liberation’ ? IT’S LIBERATION !

very smart power military🌏🌎

Germany was friendly to many more states than it had to occupy of necessity. It had Slovakia, Hungary Bulgaria Finland Romania and of course Italy as its ally. While Spain Ireland Portugal Switzerland Turkey Sweden were friendly.

@meijiturtle3814

3 жыл бұрын

Nonsense. Slovakia was a puppet state run by a vicious and genocidal antisemitic regime. Hungary was an ally but ended as a satellite while Romania and Bulgaria jumped ship in the face if the red army. Finland was a "limited" ally whose main aim was to recover territory lost to USSR in 1940 and later paid a high price at the hands of the Reich plus the loss of its temporarily regained territory. Sweden was forced to become a friendly neutral to the Reich by its geographical circumstances. Turkey was pretty well neutral. As to Ireland it was nominally neutral but was actually de facto a non-belligerant ally supplying war workers and servicemen and women to the Allied cause plus Intelligence through regular military liaison, telephone lines left open etc.

@YorkyOne

Жыл бұрын

@@meijiturtle3814 This idiot is confusing neutrality with friendship.

@michaelcait2935

Жыл бұрын

Excellent point in many of the European countries allied with Germany the governments protected their Jewish population this was true for Italy, Finland, Bulgaria, Sweden other countries never occupied by Germany such as Ireland, Scotland, England and Spain never had their Jewish population dragged into the holocaust

@KundiKalliosta

Жыл бұрын

@@meijiturtle3814 to add Finland waged war against Nazi Germany in Northern Finland at the end of the WW2

first few seconds there, you see norwegian flag and not a danish...so you sure this is denmark in the start of this video ?

They had their hands full coping with some Japanese people. But the USA Government wanted the A bomb ready for use by August 1944. Technical problems delayed THAT for 1 year. So had the A bomb been ready in the Summer of 1944, Japan would have surrendered 1 year earlier and then in the winter of 1944-45 the Second Marine Division would have been sent to the Northwest Europe front. And they would have joined in the attack on Germany.

@swarthyjake4433

5 жыл бұрын

Niels Pemberton - if , if , if against fact , fact , fact !

@michaelcait2935

Жыл бұрын

In addition Switzerland a neutral left it's Jewish population alone, Portugal was never occupied by Germany neither was turkey and Hungary was only occupied by Germany during the last one year of the war

" nazi Wholesale Capitulation" That's it!

Too bad Denmark was not liberated by the 2nd Marine Division and the US Navy.

@henriklarsen5613

7 жыл бұрын

Why?????

@Wanderer628

7 жыл бұрын

I think they preferred being liberated by people who had actually fought the war from beginning to end on principle rather than someone who came in when the tide was already turned.

@panchopuskas1

7 жыл бұрын

The Americans were good allies. No, they were great allies. Roosevelt had a hard time getting Congress to join the war. But when they did arrive it was game over.

@panchopuskas1

7 жыл бұрын

They were already intervening. They were supplying the British with all kinds of arms, equipment and goods. It was just a matter of time before they joined in full time....

@zedra9606

6 жыл бұрын

You mean while Britain was pushed back into their island.

These Danes where so incredible weak lol. Didn't even put up a fight when the Germans invaded.

@magnusthomsen8718

5 жыл бұрын

EvilResident they did tho but the army was really terrible plus the danish government surrendered 2 hours after the Germans crossed the border the danish soldiers did not know about this because the Germans had destroyed the danish communication lines

@jesperkjaer8268

5 жыл бұрын

Exactly - even the norwegians fought longer than france and refused to surrender.

@klephenthurry3284

5 жыл бұрын

Denmark is a peaceful country don't make fun of someone for loving peace and not war. I wish the my country the USA would be more like Denmark. Instead of enjoying peace, we have mass shootings and start wars for oil. It's disgraceful.

@Don_Camillo

4 жыл бұрын

The danish king himself told his guards to stop fighting when german paratroops entered 1940 in the garden of the royal palace in Kopenhagen. "It makes no sense."

@footballerxmcfc637

4 жыл бұрын

EvilResident The King surrendered you fool.... What could they do then? The danes arrived on bikes to meet the german tanks and armored cars. That Don’t seem to weak to me

That was a sad day for the Germans. A very sad day.

@callsigndd9ls897

3 жыл бұрын

Not necessarily, most Germans were also glad that the damned war was finally over and that the Nazis had nothing more to command. Only the East Germans were less happy, changed for them only the form of dictatorship.