Copenhagen: the Resistance Museum On 3 September 2002 I visited the Frihedsmuseet, the museum of the occupation of Denmark by Germany between 1940 and 1945. In English it is referred to as the Resistance Museum although in fact there was little resistance while Germany seemed to be winning. This is not a museum showing terrible atrocities and destruction. Under German occupation, the Danish people were treated better than the Germans themselves. Until 1943 the Danish government continued to run civilian life, and even to hold parliamentary elections. But I found this low-key exhibition moving because its themes reflect the political and economic conditions under which so much of the planet now lives.
In front of me is a party of American visitors. The guide is showing them Himmler's eyepatch, which ended up here.
December 1941
Resistance was now no longer pointless.
The guide tells the American visitors that Denmark is a civilised country, and that in 1943 the Danish government resigned rather than introduce capital punishment for saboteurs.
In the central garden there is a bronze sculpture, very subtle and poignant. I can't read the Danish inscription but the body language tells you...
...what Nazi Germany did to Denmark, and how Denmark submitted.

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