Lay Down Your Arms

Seven Danes’ fight for peace during the First World War

4 September 2014 - 31 January 2015 Rotunden-02

The Royal Library marks the centenary of the outbreak of World War I with the exhibition Lay Down Your Arms. The exhibition centres on neutrality and resistance to the war in Denmark. By means of letters, diaries, photographs, films and sound recordings it shows seven individual Danes' dilemmas and positions towards the war - from the balancing act of the defence minister, in the minefield of neutrality to the domestic science inspector, and peace activist's fight for the women peace movement. All seven adopt a stance towards the war and the violence. Some of them seek a compromise. Others become increasingly radical.