Landkreis Grönland | Jens Wendel-Hansen | Sprache: Dänish

1953 was a pivotal year in Greenland's history. The world's largest island went from being something as exotic as a Danish colony to something as boring as a Danish county. The Greenlandic elite wanted to lead the poor nation away from seal hunting and into the 20th century with hospitals and modern schools. At the same time, the UN demanded reports from Denmark on Greenland's status as a colony, which Danish politicians wanted to avoid. Both wishes were fulfilled when the Basic Law was amended and Greenland was admitted to the Kingdom of Denmark in 1953. Today, many Greenlandic politicians have made a half-Greenlander turnaround and want to wrest the island from the Kingdom.
Jens Lei Wendel-Hansen, postdoc at the University of Southern Denmark and former assistant professor at the University of Greenland, gives the historical overview of the relationship between Greenland and Denmark. And of the developments both before and after 1953.