https://feeds.thelocal.com/ Read the latest news and views from Denmark in English en-us news@thelocal.com (TheLocal) webmaster@thelocal.com (TheLocal) TheLocal RSS Feed After the Armistice of November 1918, British and British Empire prisoners of war in camps in northeastern Germany were transported back to Britain via Denmark, in what became known as the Danish Scheme. https://www.thelocal.dk/20190305/the-little-known-story-of-the-first-world-war-soldiers-buried-in-copenhagen Tue, 05 Mar 2019 17:53:24 +0100 the-little-known-story-of-the-first-world-war-soldiers-buried-in-copenhagen A bomb thought to have been dropped by an aircraft during the Second World War has been found near the Rubjerg Knude lighthouse in northwest Jutland. https://www.thelocal.dk/20170719/ww2-bomb-found-at-danish-lighthouse Wed, 19 Jul 2017 17:10:46 +0200 ww2-bomb-found-at-danish-lighthouse The pilot of a crashed Messerschmidt found buried in a northern Jutland field earlier this month has been identified. He was 19 years old. https://www.thelocal.dk/20170324/pilot-from-crashed-denmark-ww2-aircraft-identified Fri, 24 Mar 2017 10:18:08 +0100 pilot-from-crashed-denmark-ww2-aircraft-identified A boy in the North Jutland town of Birkelse made an unexpected discovery when doing his history homework. https://www.thelocal.dk/20170307/danish-schoolboy-finds-buried-ww2-aircraft-and-pilot Tue, 07 Mar 2017 15:30:11 +0100 danish-schoolboy-finds-buried-ww2-aircraft-and-pilot A British sailor who died in a sea battle off the Danish coast in 1916 has been identified after a century in an anonymous grave. https://www.thelocal.dk/20160519/british-ww1-sailor-identified-in-denmark Thu, 19 May 2016 13:12:47 +0200 british-ww1-sailor-identified-in-denmark From resistance fighter payouts to flyovers from historic military jets and a reenactment of the German invasion, Danes nationwide used Monday to commemorate their liberation from the Nazis. https://www.thelocal.dk/20150504/denmark-celebrates-70-years-of-freedom-ww2 Mon, 04 May 2015 16:47:40 +0200 denmark-celebrates-70-years-of-freedom-ww2 The authors of a new book say that their research shows that Danes actively particpitate in the slaughter of hundreds of Jews in Belarus, and there are now calls to investigate the surviving Danish Nazis. https://www.thelocal.dk/20141015/danish-nazis-killed-1400-jews-in-wwii-new-book Wed, 15 Oct 2014 16:31:00 +0200 danish-nazis-killed-1400-jews-in-wwii-new-book