Therefore, you need to screw in
This is what the Freedom Message from London 4 May 1945, when the Danish radio physician Johannes G. Sørensen, via the BBC’s Danish -language news broadcast, could tell the Danish population that the German troops in Denmark had surrendered. Five years of German occupation was over, the blackout curtains could be torn down and freedom was back.
This year it is 80 years since Denmark was freed and the light was turned on again. It marks DR and TV 2 with the Samsending ‘Denmark lights light – the liberation 80 years’, which comes around the country for the many memorials of the day.
It writes TV 2 Denmark in one press release.
The 80th anniversary is marked across the country with both wreath layings, lights, speeches and not least some of the songs that the Danes used to keep the courage up and to gather about that time 80 years ago.
Directly from the memorial
From a TV studio in Mindelunden in Copenhagen, TV 2’s Natasja Crone and DR’s Johannes Langkilde tie the memorable day together with TV 2’s international correspondent Ulla Terkelsen and DR’s history and royal house correspondent Cecilie Nielsen. In addition, reporters take viewers around and show how the day is marked in Denmark.
– I am both proud and honored to be part of this very special day. It will be an afternoon and evening of historical images and vivid stories from those who experienced the liberation themselves. We bring reports from commemorations across the country, but we also look ahead and ask what we can learn today from what happened 80 years ago and how we cherish our freedom in a new era. I am very happy to be involved in conveying it all with Natasja, says Johannes Langkilde, host at DR.
In the afternoon we join when the royal couple and Queen Margrethe together with the official Denmark are for memorial service at Our Lady Church in Copenhagen. And later in the evening we are in Mindelunden in Copenhagen, where the royal family and the prime minister put down a wreath for those who paid the highest price in the freedom struggle, and many of whom are buried in the Mindelunden.
– In a time when there is war in Europe again, there is a really good reason to stand together about our freedom and values in Denmark. Values we can never take for granted. We also hope that all of Denmark will join in when DR and TV 2 together celebrate freedom, recall some violent years of Danish history and put light in the windows, as some did on the liberation evening 80 years ago, and many still do, says Natasja Crone, hosted on TV 2.
