WW2 Tommies

The group is a re-enactment organisation in Denmark making living history – about British units from 1914 to 1952. Their primary focus is World War 2. The members show many individual interests in connection with their activities and exhibitions – some are focused on uniforms and equipment while others are focused on vehicles and accessories.

The group will participate Saturday and Sunday with 16 men and 6 to 8 vehicles.

The group will be located in the area north of command bunker 14.

Stützpunktgruppe Süd (German re-enactment group with motorcycle and side-car)

The group participates Saturday and Sunday with 8 to 10 men. The group sets up its headquarter in and by commando bunker 14 and has a unit in the fire control bunker 34. The group is one of the two local groups which often can be seen at Bangsbo Fort.

More information about the group can be found at www.facebook.com/SGSreenactmen

”The destruction specialist group” (Sabotage group)

A local resistance group which will sabotage German interests during the event. The small group base their activities on real persons and real activities. They live and work underground so therefore more information cannot be given here.  

Marine - Artillerie - Abteilung 509 (German re-enactment group)

The group participates Saturday and Sunday with 2 men as a part of the regiment. The group is one of the two local groups which often can be seen at Bangsbo Fort.

More information about the group can be found at https://www.facebook.com/Marine-Artillerie-Abteilung-509

Der Frontsoldat (German re-enactment group)

This is a small group of 4 men quartered in personnel bunker 21. In spite of the small size of the group they can present quite an amount of equipment and weapons. All members will participate both days.

Home Guard Company Frederikshavn

The company participates Saturday and Sunday with 10 men, 2-4 vehicles and an exhibition pavilion set up in the area south east of the museum building.

Read more about the company at www.hjv.dk/oe/HVKFRH/Sider/default.aspx

Henning Sørensen (Lecture)

On Saturday and Sunday Henning Sørensen’s exhibition is open in Bunker 15. It tells about a dark chapter from the time of the liberation from the German occupation, namely the German refugees who added thousands of people to our local population. In particular the exhibition deals with the German refugees in Frederikshavn and Sæby 1945 to 1949.

Laura Bork

Laura is interested in history and is able to make Victory Rolls, a then popular women’s hairstyle which women made to show their support. She participates with a pop-up hairdressing salon.

The Bunker Group Løkken

The recently formed bunker group from Løkken present and tell about the bunkers in which they plan to establish a museum. The group is managed by the youngest bunker geek in Denmark, 14-year old Tristan.

More info at https://www.facebook.com/groups/837747224306059

Danish Special Effects Service

Since its start in 1988 this firm has been the main driving force in the creation of innovative special effects for film industry in Scandinavia but also internationally. It has distinguished itself in the design and construction of advanced large scale mechanical effects, action pyrotechnics, large scale explosions, gunfights with effects and stunts with fire and pyrotechnics.

More info at www.dsfx.dk

Niels Klingenberg Vistisen (Lecture)

On Saturday the historian Niels Klingenberg Vistisen attends the event to tell about the book he has recently co-written with Jakob Kjærsgaard. Entitled “Under fremmed muld” (In a foreign country) it tells about a so far rather unnoticed chapter in WW2 where two Danes more or less by accident became involved in bloody fights. The two Danes – John Andreasen and Niels Wiesneck – both ended in the Canadian army and without knowing about the other they both fought in the offensive against Hitler’s forces – all the way from Normandy to Germany.

Read more about the book at : https://turbine.dk/produkt/under-fremmed-muld/

Anders Tøttrup Nielsen (Lecture)

Anders Tøttrup Nielsen is a historian specializing in the presentation of cultural heritage and since 2022 he has been a curator at The Coastal Museum of Northern Jutland. He has done research into “The Victims of Nazism” the last couple of years, resulting in laying out so-called Stolpersteine (stumbling blocks) in six different towns within the municipality of Frederikshavn.  Stumbling blocks are small memorial stones the size of a cobble. They are placed in the pavement where a victim of Nazism last stayed – typically the victim’s home or workplace. They are the world’s biggest decentralized memorials with more than 90,000 stumbling blocks spread all over most of Europe.

The work with the victims of Nazism has turned into the exhibition “Victims of Nazism – the fates of 39 persons” at Bangsbo Fort. Here you will learn about the individual fates of different people. Men  active in the resistance movement who died in concentration camps, fishermen and sailors whose ships hit mines or were torpedoed and many more who became victims of Nazism during the German occupation of Denmark