In May 1995, Denmark was celebrating the fiftieth anniversary of the end of its occupation by the Nazis during World War 2, and many festivities were planned. As part of these, an art installation called 'Peace Sculpture 1995' was greenlit (literally): on the evening of the 4th of March, a string of connected lasers would light up the coast of Denmark and expose the remains of the 6000 German bunkers which were built there to protect Germany from invasion by the Allied Forces. Denmark has traditionally put up lights everywhere in May to commemorate the end of the war, so this seemed like a nice enough project, a spectacular light in a sea of lights, right? Wrong, apparently... When the plans became known, some dissenting...
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In May 1995, Denmark was celebrating the fiftieth anniversary of the end of its occupation by the Nazis during World War 2, and many festivities were planned. As part of these, an art installation called 'Peace Sculpture 1995' was greenlit (literally): on the evening of the 4th of March, a string of connected lasers would light up the coast of Denmark and expose the remains of the 6000 German bunkers which were built there to protect Germany from invasion by the Allied Forces. Denmark has traditionally put up lights everywhere in May to commemorate the end of the war, so this seemed like a nice enough project, a spectacular light in a sea of lights, right? Wrong, apparently... When the plans became known, some dissenting...
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