Copenhagen War Museum

This guide to the Copenhagen War Museum follows a four-meter bronze lion cast by sculptor Herman Bissen in 1850 to guard the graves of Danes killed at the Battle of Isted, and unveiled at a Flensburg cemetery in 1862. It traces what happened when Prussia crushed Denmark in the Second Schleswig War two years later and German nationalists stormed that cemetery, and how Otto von Bismarck himself got involved. Listen inside the old Renaissance arsenal that Christian the Fourth built to hold Denmark's weapons, among a hundred thousand more of them.