King Christian X of Denmark is photographed here riding through the streets of Copenhagen on his 70th birthday on the 26th of September, 1940.
The image was taken during the Nazi occupation of the country. The King became famous for his daily rides unaccompanied by guards, a sign of defiance against the Germans.
The occupation began in April of 1940, and continued until the defeat of Nazi Germany in 1945 at the end of the Second World War.
This photograph of Danish soldiers was taken on the 9th of April, 1940, the date of the German invasion of Denmark.
Two of these seven soldiers were killed later that day.
During the occupation King Christian X became a prominent figure of defiance, seen riding unaccompanied through the streets of Copenhagen.
The Nazis occupied the country until the Allied victory on the 5th of May, 1945.
King Christian X of Denmark and the German Emperor Wilhelm II during a visit to Berlin in 1913.
In Times Gone By... 