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Gallery Package - Denmark: from the atomic bomb to the Rolling Stones


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" Politikens " newspaper photographer , Erik Petersen , took many photographs in Copenhagen during the wartime German occupation of Denmark . Four children are pictured here dressed up to celebrate the Shrovetide festival during this time .
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" Politikens " newspaper photographer , Erik Petersen , took many photographs in Copenhagen during the wartime German occupation of Denmark . Here he has photographed a couple skating on Lake Peblinge , Copenhagen during that time .
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" Politikens " newspaper photographer , Erik Petersen , took many photographs in Copenhagen during the wartime German occupation of Denmark . <br>Here a man cycles through the city with an adult dead swan under his arm.
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Polish refugees on board the St. Lawrence - a ship used as a floating hotel and berthed in Copenhagen , Denmark .
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The architect Arne Jacobsen's Egg chair
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Suspected stikkere taken prisoner by resistance fighters in Denmark
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Freedom fighters in combat with German henchmen in Copenhagen Denmark
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World War II <br>The French School in Copenhagen , bombed by mistake by Allied bombers. 86 children and 13 adults were killed.
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Queen Margrethe II presents newborn Crown Prince Frederik of Denmark ( born in Copenhagen on 26 May 1968 ). If he becomes king the he will be Frederik X of Denmark.
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The Danish inventor , Christian Jacob Ellehammer , in his office with a model of wind engine.
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Passers by looking at posters on the news stand in City Hall Square in Copenhagen in September 1939
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Danish women who had fraternised or more with German soldiers during World War 2 were then called " German girls " and accused of being jacks - May 1945
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1961. Denmark. Two sisters relax and sunbath listening to their transistor radio .
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Holidaymakers pushing a car at the water's edge of the North Sea.
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A baby with a puzzled expression looks over the edge of a metal bucket . <br>1950s.
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Mothers milk - a life source . A baby feeding on it ' s mother ' s breast milk . Erik Petersen ' s famous suckler picture. <br>1950s.
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Disadvantages for a circus elephant boarding a train.
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1912: Zeppelin offender &quotHansa" (German airship LZ13) at the aerodrome in Amager. The Air Express Hamburg-Copenhagen journey takes five hours and twenty minutes. The inventor of the flying cigar, Count Ferdinand Zeppelin together with an officer and airship experts are on board - Politikens flying officer Alfred Nervø is on the flight
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Girls on a hot summer day in Denmark sometime between 1910 and 1920
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A small jockey on the way to his horse
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Swedish cyclist - A Maant - probably 1923-24<br>Photo: Holger Damgaard / Polfoto
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Danish women who had fraternised or more with German soldiers during World War 2 were then called " German girls " accused of being jacks
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Undated photos from the Rolling Stones' earliest concerts in Denmark. Bill Wyman and Mick Jagger lark about .
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Danish writer , Suzanne Brøgger with Arnold Schwarzenegger during dinner at Cafe Beautiful Marie in Copenhagen in 1978.
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1928: American dancer , Josephine Baker , in her infamous banana costume as she appears at the Dagmar Theater in Jernbanegade.
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Cycle-cross, is only for the tough guys. Leif Jørgensen from Kalundborg can be seen one Sunday in January 1971 struggling with the wheel as he jumps in mud sleet and wind
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1981 - 12 hours old and born a month early - but still with a birth weight of 76 kg - a young elephant in the Copenhagen Zoo is a rarity - there are only two or three elephants born in captivity around the world
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1980 - The cows in Hornsherred make way for the US leather necks going ashore at Jægerspris with their war machines on a large military exercise with troops from 2 sjællandske brigade
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1973 - Fortissimo - Radio Symphony Orchestra<br>Sergiu Celibidache ( 28 June 1912 - 14 August 1996 ) - Romanian conductor
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1976: storm surge disaster in South Jutland. Dikes were breached and 20,000 people evacuated - a small fishing boat from the port of Romo has been left high and dry on the breakwater due to the storms.
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1960 - Sketches &quotschool" with makkerparret Keller Dirk, Kjeld Petersen and Dirch Passer<br>© (Erik Petersen / Polfoto) - " Politikens " newspaper photographer
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The baptism of Crown Prince Frederik of Denmark in Holmen ' s Church , Copenhagen .
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Maria Callas , an American - born Greek soprano and one of the most renowned opera singers of the twentieth century<br>Date uncertain.
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World War II<br>Frikorps Denmark departure from Hellerup Station , Copenhagen , for the Eastern front <br>1941.
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Danish film director and screenwriter , Lars von Trier.
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American musician , Frank Zappa , leader of the rock band , the Mothers of Invention.
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Little girl with her dolls pram .
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Boys smoke cigarettes during their playtime at school.
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1945: World War 2. the liberation of Denmark by the Allies . Exactly at. 11:30 am , Saturday , 12th May , the Allied commander , Field Marshal Montgomery, set foot on Danish soil. On his journey from the airport he received a hero 's welcome standing up in the back of the King's car . This picture became a symbol of liberation, and later a stamp. Monty drives across the Rådhuspladsen , Copenhagen .
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Liberation day in Denmark . 5 happy girls on their way to Kongens Nytorv on the 5 May , 1945. From left: Gerda Herskind , Inger Thor Mark Bluhme , Kirsten Kruse , Elna Pedersen and Maria Lyster Nielsen.
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Indian Prime Minister Nehru visited Denmark in 1957 - Here he is seen with Prime Minister H . C . Hansen on the Tivoli dodgems.<br>Hansen was a politician and statesman who, as foreign minister and prime minister, led Denmark to a prominent position in the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) and guided the stabilization of Denmark’s post-World War II economy.
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John Lennon with Yoko Ono and her daughter Kyoko in the Skyum Mountains in Thy visiting New Experimental College of Anthony ( Kyoko's father ) and Belinda Cox
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Karen Blixen seen here in Rungstedlund Zeeland Denmark - <br>Baroness Karen von Blixen-Finecke (17 April 1885 - 7 September 1962 née Karen Dinesen ) was a Danish author also known under her pen name Isak Dinesen - She wrote works both in Danish and in English and is best known, at least in English, for Out of Africa, her account of living in Kenya , and one of her stories , Babette's Feast , both of which have been adapted into highly acclaimed motion pictures . In Denmark she is best known for her works Out of Africa and Seven Gothic Tales .
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1974: Alexander Solsjenitsyn - Soviet dissident and Nobel Prize laureate - visiting Copenhagen . Author Association ' s President, Hans Jorgen Lembourn, and his wife, Ellen Winther show him around.
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Some of the 9,000 fans in the KB-Hallen in Copenhagen , who attended the start of The Beatles' world tour on the 4 June 1964.
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The Beatles gave two concerts at KB-Hallen in Copenhagen in 1964. From left: Paul McCartney, John Lennon and George Harrison.
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The Little Mermaid at Langelinie Harbour in Copenhagen with children playing on rocks beside the statue ( unknown photographer )
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1971: The year's shortest day - Winter solstice
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1969 - A torrential downpourr in the summer heat - taxi No. 193 is stuck
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1961: Winter Solstice. Street theater and literature reviews Harald Engberg - chief editor
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Goal ! - no , the ball flies past the goal post which makes Norwegian goalkeeper Asbjørn Hansen's stunning leap obsolete. Norway wins the match against Denmark 3 - 1<br>1952
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1964: One Saturday morning in April , Denmark woke up to find that the unimaginable had happened , someone had sawn off the head of The Little Mermaid at Langelinie. There is a reward of 3000 DKK dusør to the person who finds the head.
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1963 - Now, where was I ..... ?
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1960 - John F. Kennedy with his most ardent supporter in the election campaign - his wife Jacqueline ( Jacqueline Lee Bouvier Kennedy )
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Danish singing duo , Nina and Frederik , have suddenly made the gentle Calypso style of music an alternative to noisy rock ' n ' roll . Nina and Frederik , he with his Dutch nobility and she with her beauty , have triumphed , becoming the year ' s finest hit in Danish - and subsequently international entertainment .<br>1957
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1948: Flensborg Avis uses an image of winter traffic showing that despite the unequal distribution between animal and machine the animal horse power is still as crucial to everyday transport as the car horse power
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1960 - Our man in the U.S. following the election campaign in which Richard Milhous Nixon has invited President Dwight David " Ike " Eisenhower in an effort to beat John F. Kennedy
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This picture proves you can drink yourself to a better view for a football match in the Sports Park .
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1957 - Sophia Loren ( born Sofia Villani Scicolone on 20 September 1934 ) between landing at Kastrup en route to Hollywood. She is here only for 20 minutes, but long enough to grab the attention of the local press. Behind Sophia Loren is Peter Ronild and Today's News broadcastet - Ninka
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In 1959 a large African elephant in the zoo comes very close - 50 centimetres from the lens, but the lens has a very short focal length so the picture is sharp throughout.
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A ballet style leap is needed to jump over the roadside winter slush and water but it becomes a necessity if we want to get bread from the baker .<br>1958
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Le Corbusier on a brief stopover in Copenhagen - Danish Architectural Association and Politken have organised a large exhibition of his works in Kunstindustrimuseet - 1958<br>Charles-Édouard Jeanneret-Gris, who chose to be known as Le Corbusier (October 6, 1887 - August 27, 1965), was a Swiss-French architect, designer, urbanist, writer and also painter, who is famous for being one of the pioneers of what now is called Modern architecture or the International Style. He was born in Switzerland and became a French citizen in his 30s.
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1946: The first U.S. naval visits to Langelinie in Copenhagen bring cigarettes and new dance rhythms with them . US sailor dancing with the local girls .
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1940: World War II - The German occupation of Denmark . <br>In the early hours of the 9th April , 1940 , German<br>aircraft flew low over Copenhagen and dropped the notorious OPROP! leaflets calling for the Danes to accept occupation peacefully . It claimed that Germany had occupied Denmark and Norway to protect them from invasion from Great Britain and France . The leaflets were signed by the German Commander .
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1940: World War II - the German occupation of Denmark. It is difficult for the citizens of Copenhagen to get used to the new rules for general movement . Many places in the city have standardised traffic routes with the German soldiers acting as traffic policemen .
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US President Richard Nixon speaks at Rebild Bakker in 1962.
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Captain J.P. Jespersen.
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Rolling Stones - Mick Jagger here - giving a concert in Tivoli Concert Hall in Copenhagen.<br>1965
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Polfoto, COPENAHGEN, DENMARK 12OCT2001 (files) American jazz musician , Duke Ellington and his band , play during a visit to Copenhagen in 1963.
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Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother of the United Kingdom is received by King Frederik and Queen Ingrid on her arrival in Denmark on an official royal tour . Photo: Asger Sessingø<br>Polfoto, 1 February 1968
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The Danish atomic physicist Niels Bohr ( 7 October 1885 - 18 November 1962) photographed circa 1905<br>Niels Henrik David Bohr - Danish physicist who received the Nobel Prize in Physica in 1922 for his fundamental contributions to understanding atomic structure and quantum mechanics.
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Transporting milk around the countryside . A woman with milk churns attached to her bicycle .
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The Danish atomic physicist Niels Bohr (1885 - 1962)
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Danish ballet dancer , Vivi Flindt in &quotWonderful Kælling" at the Royal Theater .
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The American actor Danny Kaye throws himself into the bed of Hans Christian Andersen on a visit to the Danish author ' s childhood home in Odense, Denmark .
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Langelinie Harbour
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Marlene Dietrich ( 27 December 1901 - 6 May 1992 )
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Princess Margrethe <br>Margrethe II (born 16 April 1940 )<br>Queen regnant of Denmark<br>Photo taken 28 January 1952 by Erik Petersen - newspaper photographer for " Politikens "<br>
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May 1980 - Unrest in the Nørrebro (an area in Copenhagen ) i.f.m. clearing away &quotByggeren"<br>Nørrebrogade is known as the site of many riots over the years. During the 1980s it often provided the settings for violent clashes between riot police and militant squatters . The battles were of a vicious nature often involving molotov-cocktails and pipe bombs being used by the squatters as well as batons tear gas and firearms used by the police.
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POLFOTO 01.11.1943 <br>A jewish woman is helped into a fishing boat in her escape to Sweden from Denmark during WWII
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POLFOTO, COPENHAGEN, DENMARK (filer 1939) British actor John Gielgud performing as Hamlet at Kronborg Castle in 1939. <br>Photo: POLFOTO/ Holger Damgaard<br>
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