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May, the candle in the window, and getting old in Denmark: The Danish Year Part 5 artwork
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May, the candle in the window, and getting old in Denmark: The Danish Year Part 5

How to Live in Denmark by Kay Xander Mellish

May 2, 202508:19Society & Culture

There's a lovely May tradition in Denmark of setting a candle in the window on the evening of May 4. This is to commemorate the surrender of the Germans and the end of the Nazi occupation in 1945. The Nazis imposed a bla...