Simon Mølholm Olesen
Simon Mølholm Olesen is currently pursuing a PhD in History at the School of Culture and Society, Aarhus University. His research interests include the Dano-Inuit colonial encounter, early modern Greenland history, and the decolonization of Greenland. You can read more about his publications and work here
Contributions to nordics.info
2019.08.19 | Article, Simon Mølholm Olesen, Governance, Nation building
The Danish decolonisation of Greenland, 1945-54
An international discussion on decolonisation followed in the aftermath of the Second World War in the mid-1940s. The newly formed United Nations created some of the most important platforms for these discussions. Consequently, Danish politicians and civil servants feared that Greenland, the last of the Danish colonies, would attract negative…