Looking back it might seem like an easy and clear decision to join the resistance but things weren’t so black and white at the time. Resistance activities were initially reserved to a very few. By following the stories of five different Danes, you can learn about some of the many difficult dilemmas and choices people had to make.
At the Museum of Danish Resistance, you’ll meet Musse Hartig, Jørgen Kieler, Thorkild Lund-Jensen, Karl Christensen and Henning Brøndum. Four of the five joined the resistance, while Henning Brøndum became a Nazi and joined the Peter Group. Combining her communist beliefs, motherhood and working for the resistance was a difficult line to walk for Musse Hartig.
Meanwhile student Thorkild Lund-Jensen’s resistance work forced him to go into hiding. Karl Christensen blew German-friendly factories. And Jørgen Kieler’s involvement with the armed resistance ended up having dire consequences for him.