Rejsen til Slagmarken - Episode Guide

In 2016, it was 100 years since two of the largest 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 first program, the trip goes to Verdun, the first of the two gruesome and violent battles, both of which were completely decisive for how the First World War ended...

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.

On D-Day d.6. June 1944, the Allied forces attacked the Nazi defensive positions in Normandy in the largest operation from the water in world history. In this program, Cecilie Nielsen travels to the French battlefields to tell about the enormous preparations, technical genius, bloody battles on the beaches, the defeat of the Nazis, and not least the story of the Dane John Andreasen, who fought for the Allies on the beaches on 6 June.

When Hitler's Nazi Germany invaded the Soviet Union in 1941, an ideological war of extermination began, resulting in millions of deaths. In this programme, Cecilie Nielsen travels in the footsteps of the Danes who volunteered for the Waffen SS to fight on the side of the Nazis. Not least on the officer Per Sørensen, whom she follows from the ideological schooling in Germany to bloody and cruel battles in the swamps on the Eastern Front to the final collapse in the streets of Berlin in 1945.