Hello folks. Just wanted to share a few photos from a trip I took to the west coast of Jutland in Denmark. It never ceases to amaze me how well built these structures are, still standing after all these years. The photos are taken at a small town called Løkken which had lots of difficulties during the war. After the food rationing kicked in, the town was relying on what the fishermen brought in. But after the atlantic wall was built and the beach was heavily mined and shut down for the public, it didn't make conditions any less difficult for the citizens in Løkken. A small comfort for the people living there was when the germans left when the war ended, and they were allowed to use the metal from the cannons in the bunkers and bring the furnitures etc. from the bunkers back to their homes.
Excellent photographs Jacob.Now these defences might last a 1000 years but the erosion qualities of the sea are ever working to destroy works by man. Incidentally after being with my Danish friends, I can name the half Jewish singer who escaped to Sweden with the former resistance man I met last year.My friend thinks he was a member of the BOPA organisation.Fortunately he had a aquaintance in the Danish police who tipped him off that he was to be arrested the next day...he put distance between him and the Gestapo that night when he escaped to Sweden. The singer's name was Rachel Rastennie.I was led to believe she was a classical singer but have been corrected that she was what we would call now a "pop" singer. I will post my photographs of my visit to the detention centre when I can. I did not realise that the British Army, headed by a Major supervised the clearance of the Danish west coast minefields.The operatives were German POWs and looking at the documentation there was a heavy loss of life in conducting the clearance.
Thanks for the info Harry. I agree, but thinking of the erosion qualities at the west coast it just makes it even more amazing they are still standing. Never heard of Rachel Rastennie. Will have to look into that. Looking forward to see your photographs
Her name was Anna Rachel Rastenni.(21/8/1915-17/8/1998).She had a singing career which spanned the 1930s until the 1970s.Doing a little research,she appears to be remembered well by the Danish media.Apparently she sang Edith Piaf's Milord and this is available on U Tube.(Can't see it on dial up) She was also known as Raquel Rastenni and broadcast on Danish radio before the war.She sang jazz with the Bruno Henriksens Orkester in a group known as the "Harlem Kiddies" There is some good information about her at Kendtes gravsted which details her fleeing to Sweden in October 1943 and her Jewish background. As Arne said of the night in question.She had no smokes and smoked all mine.
Her name was Anna Rachel Rastenni.(21/8/1915-17/8/1998).She had a singing career which spanned the 1930s until the 1970s.Doing a little research,she appears to be remembered well by the Danish media.Apparently she sang Edith Piaf's Milord and this is available on U Tube.(Can't see it on dial up) She was also known as Raquel Rasteni and broadcast on Danish radio before the war.She sang jazz with the Bruno Henriksens Orkester in a group known as the "Harlem Kiddies" There is some good information about her at Kendtes gravsted which details her fleeing to Sweden in October 1943 and her Jewish background. As Arne said of the night in question.She had no smokes and smoked all mine.
