Mindelunden is a memorial park

Memorial Park

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 in Ryvangen in Copenhagen

Copenhagen

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, Denmark

Denmark

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During the Second World War, the German

Germany

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 occupying power executed members of the Danish resistance movement

Danish resistance movement

The Danish resistance movement was an underground insurgency movement to resist the German occupation of Denmark during World War II. Due to the unusually lenient terms given to Danish people by the Nazi occupation authority, the movement was slower to develop effective tactics on a wide scale...

 on this location. After the liberation the site was converted to a cemetery

Cemetery

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 and memorial park for the resistance members who were executed there.
The condemned were tied to one of the "silent poles" at the end of the firing range and executed by firing squad. The three poles have since been replaced with bronze casts.

The remains of 31 Danes who died in German concentration camps

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 are buried here. The Verandah

Verandah

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along the eastern border of the park has 151 tombstones, one for each of 151 Danish resistance members whose remains have never been found. At the centre is a large communal plaque.