GRUPPE 61 SULTESTREJKE ( Group of 61 - Hunger Strike ) - Copenhagen, 1961

Photographs by Simos Tsapnidis. 
Copyright Manolis Daloukas. 
Archive Simos 1961/226

More in our Archives, all in High Resolution.

Christmas Eve 1961 put five young people at City Hall Square in Copenhagen and began a hunger strike. They were not subjected to any injustice, and their demonstration was not aimed at a specific decision. They protested against the Danish gluttony and demanded solidarity with the starving masses of the Third World.

Kampagnen mod Atomvåben (Campaign against Nuclear Weapons) 21, 22 and 23 October 1960. Denmark.

Photographs by Simos Tsapnidis.
Copyright Manolis Daloukas.
Archive Simos 1960/243.

More than one hundred excellent photographs (all in High Resolution), from the first Peace March in Denmark (21, 22 and 23 October 1960).

Campaign against Nuclear Weapons, formed in 1960 , was a movement that aimed to stop the nuclear arms race and keep Denmark free of nuclear weapons .