Griffenfeldsgade

Griffenfeldsgade is a street in the

Griffenfeldsgade was until 1879 called Parcelvej ("Lot Road). Griffenfeldsgade is named after the Holstein statesman

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Griffenfeldsgade during the occupation

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At the outbreak of

Danish Communist Party

had its office on the 3rd floor of Griffenfeldsgade 50, the party newspaper Arbejderbladet were housed in the ground and first floor.

When the German Wehrmacht occupied Denmark on 9 April all the lists of party members, subscribers and magazine sellers were burned, but the Danish police had already secured the addresses.

After Nazi Germany's attack on the Soviet Union in 1941, the Communist Party was banned in Denmark. Simultaneously, several members were arrested and the release of the Arbejderbladet was banned. The party then continued as an illegal organization from November 1941 and published the illegal opposition magazine Land og folk. A small printing house in Griffenfeldsgade, usually printing occasional songs and the like, now printed illegal pamphlets and newspapers.

During the occupation Griffenfeldsgade was scene of several firefights between the

The former St. Joseph's Hospital is from 1875. It was founded by St. Joseph Sisters in 1975. The building was designed by Christian Hansen in the Gothic Revival style. The hospital was later nursing home but closed in 2005.^[4]

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