Danish Summer Camps


Figure 1.--Here we see some sort of initiation event at a small Danish summer camp during World War II. We are not sure whaty it says on the bucket.

We notice Danish boys enjoying summer camping. We do not know a lot about summer camping in Denmark. We have not been avle to find any historical information on Danish camping. It probably developed in the inter-War period. That was the general pattern in Europe. Of course as a peninsula, there are all kinds of wonderful places to locate camps. We suspect, however, tht we are talking about rather chilly water. Which is inecreason why the Danes and Germans nowadays head south for holidays. And as Scouting was popular in Denmark, we assume that the Scouts set up summer camps. The first camp we know about was a rather informal seaside camp, we think slong the Baltic coast. It was a rather informal affair with the boys sleeping in a loft on straw. Presumably there were some more substantial camps. We note some Danish boys going to Germany for a summer camp experience early in the War. These were probably boys with NAZI parents. Summer camps were popular throughout Scandanavia. We note a summer camp set up for Finnish children during World War II.







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