It’s not often that Lars and I find remnants of World War II in Denmark. Maybe it’s because we have never looked for them or maybe it’s because we were simply in the wrong places… That changed when we had a stop in Ollerup:
1943. The Germans requisitioned 3 schools in Ollerup. In the beginning of 1944, they decide to build an air-raid shelter to protect themselves from attacks of the Allies. At that time, Denmark was regularly hit by English and American planes; two of them crashed less than two kilometers from the shelter.
If you want to know how the local population reacted to these events, you can visit the shelter which since 2002 has been transformed into a museum. It’s situated on the main road, open to visitors all day between 1 May and 31 October and you can visit it for free.
