Max Bæklund, who died in 1981, hid the explosives in a beer crate when he walked into Forum 83 years ago. Photo: Sebastian Elias Uth/Ritzau Scanpix
Resistance fighters honored for Forum bombing
Eighty-three years after Max Bæklund sabotaged Copenhagen’s Forum, a monument honoring the resistance fighter was unveiled on Frederiksberg.
On August 24, 1943, the resistance group Holger Danske blew up the building to prevent German forces from using it as a barracks for 1,500 soldiers. The...
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