Lundtoftbjerg is an area 1 mile south of the small village Lundtoft

Lundtoft

Until January 1, 2007 Lundtoft was a municipality in South Jutland County on the east coast of the Jutland peninsula in south Denmark. The municipality covered an area of 137 km², and had a total population of 6,184 . Its last mayor was Hans Philip Tietje, a member of the Venstre political party...

 in the southern part of Jutland

Jutland

Jutland , historically also called Cimbria, is the name of the peninsula that juts out in Northern Europe toward the rest of Scandinavia, forming the mainland part of Denmark. It has the North Sea to its west, Kattegat and Skagerrak to its north, the Baltic Sea to its east, and the Danish–German...

, Denmark

Denmark

Denmark is a Scandinavian country in Northern Europe. The countries of Denmark and Greenland, as well as the Faroe Islands, constitute the Kingdom of Denmark . It is the southernmost of the Nordic countries, southwest of Sweden and south of Norway, and bordered to the south by Germany. Denmark...

 where the first fightings between Danish and German troops took place in 1940.

At 4:50 in the morning of April 9th 1940, a Danish platoon of 19 soldiers initiated the fighting against the Germans invading Denmark. With two 20mm cannon

Cannon

A cannon is any piece of artillery that uses gunpowder or other usually explosive-based propellents to launch a projectile. Cannon vary in caliber, range, mobility, rate of fire, angle of fire, and firepower; different forms of cannon combine and balance these attributes in varying degrees,...

 and a machine gun the Danes held 18 advancing German panzers and almost 200 men for half an hour. Two armored cars and three armored motorcycles were destroyed and at least 4 Germans killed. One Dane was wounded and another killed in the following retreat.