Somme

In 2016, it is 100 years since two of the biggest and deadliest battles of the First World War were fought. Denmark did not participate in the war, but despite that, many thousands of Danish soldiers died in battle on both sides of the front. In two programmes, the two historians Kåre Johannesen and Cecilie Nielsen travel in the footsteps of the Danish soldiers and tell the story of the battles. In the second programme, the trip goes to the Somme, the last of the two gruesome and violent battles, both of which were completely decisive for how the First World War ended.