English: The 9th of April 1940 was a shitty day for the Danish Kingdom, who woke up to the harsh reality that the "non-aggression pact" the mighty German neighbour so generously had granted the little people was all but a lie. The war had finally come to the land of fairy tales, and Denmark was at war for the first time since the disastrous "War of 1864" (it was a civil-war, but you get the point).

It's probably the single most known piece of paper in the Denmark and it's from my fathers collection of war stuff. He was 16 at the end of the war. Had the war lasted a year or two longer, he would likely have been subject to enforced conscription in the German Army (SS), since the Danish army had been dissolved in 1943.

This is the front-side of a leaflet dropped from a Nazi-German aircraft bomber on the day of invasion. The Danish government capitulated later the same day...