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 | On Copenhagen West Cemetery (Vestre Kirkegaard), the largest cemetery in Copenhagen are 4,643 soldiers and 5,344 German refugees from German occupied european areas buried.
The German cemetery is found in the southwestern part in two places. |  | 08/29/2009 | 30 | 
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 | These are the remains of the former airfield of Avedore.
It was opened 1917 and was the beginning of the danish airforce. It was danish airfield until 1940 whe the german occupation began. The germans took most items with them to their airfield Vaerlose NW of Copenhagen. 1945 it was all over.
Today only 2 wooden hangars remains, the oldest in the world. The 10 smal... | | 09/30/2007 | 337 |
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 | It was here in a tent on may 4th. 1945 Field marschal Montgomery and Admiral von Friedeburg signed the german capitulation, and that had effect from may 5th.
After the war the britons build up a memorial but it was taken away again 1953 and brought to Sandhurst military academy. |  | 04/25/2006 | 478 |
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 | On this site in Frederiksberg stood The French School or also known as Institut Jeanne d'Arc. It was hit by bombs during the controversial british Operation Carthage raid against the SS Headquarter Shell-Huset in Copenhagen on March 21st. 1945.
In the school were 529 people. 482 children, 34 katholic nunns, 8 civil teachers and 5 parent or workers. 87 children and 13 adults, most... | | 08/09/2009 | 35 |
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 | The gasometer was build 1883 and was the second in Copenhagen. It was in use untill 1979.
1986 it was rebuild to a new theater of Copenhagen, Oestre Gasvaerk. | | 09/10/2006 | 187 |
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 | The Little Mermaid is a statue on a rock in Copenhagen Harbour. Though small and unimposing it is a symbol of Copenhagen and a major tourist attraction. | | 03/18/2007 | 379 |
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 | 1925 the airport Dortmund Brackel was opened with the route Copenhagen-Hamburg-Bremen-Dortmund-Frankfurt/Main-Stuttgart-Zurich and soon after following cities came on to direct flights: Hannover, Berlin, Halle, Leipzig, Bremen, Hamburg, Frankfurt/Main and Amsterdam.
1928 8,000 take offs and landings and was the second most important airport in Western Germany. Only Cologne was mo... |  | 03/14/2007 | 239 |
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 | The Police HQ in Copenhagen was built from original drawings by Hack Kampmann, 1918 to 1924, and is still in use today. It is a neoclassic design with a central pillared rotunda. Easily one of the ugliest buildings in Copenhagen it is nevertheless a true landmark of the city. |  | 08/21/2005 | 207 |
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 | The Stadtschloss (German: Berliner Stadtschloss, rendered in English as Berlin City Palace), was a royal palace in the centre of Berlin, capital of Germany (1871-1945 capital of the German Reich, 1949-1990 in parts capital of East Germany, 1990 to date capital of reunifed Germany). It was the principal residence (winter residence) of the Kings of Prussia from 1701-1918 and of the German Emperor... | | 11/10/2009 | 50 |
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 | The Church of Our Lady is the cathedral of Copenhagen. The site has housed a church since 1209. The present building was consecrated in 1829, its predecessor having been destroyed in the bombardment of Copenhagen in 1807. | | 03/18/2006 | 142 |
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 | Operation Carthage (1945-03-21) was a controversial British air raid on Copenhagen, Denmark, during World War II. The target of the raid was the Shellhus, Gestapo headquarters, in the city centre, a building that had been used for the storage of dossiers and the torture of Danish citizens.
The raid was requested by members of the Danish resistance movement in the hope of freeing ... | | 08/09/2009 | 50 |
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 | German losses after both world wars and numbers killed/expelled. Numbers are high estimates |  | 10/24/2005 | 2,117 |
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