From Germany to Denmark:
Spandet, 1864 to 1920
During the First World War, young men from South Jutland were drafted into the German army. Every family in the region was affected by the war, and many young men who came back alive suffered from "shell shock," known today as post-traumatic stress disorder.
Memorial tablet in Spandet's church of the names of the community's dead from the First World War, 2007. (Courtesy Dr. Christina Folke Ax)
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