Claus Kjeld Jensen stands in the courtyard of his new museum and tells how he first heard about the camp for German refugees.
About how world history once burst into the Danish provinces.
He was five years old when he was with his grandfather here in Oksbøl on the west coast and noticed these strange stamps.
Grandfather was a tailor and Jensen sat on his rough work table where he cut the fabrics and which had all the German stamps on them.
Grandpa had bought the table when the refugee camp was closed.
Today, a good 50 years later, the table is in his kitchen, says Jensen.
And he himself is the director of the new Flugt Museum in Oksbøl.
Matthias Wysuwa
Political correspondent for northern Germany and Scandinavia based in Hamburg.
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It's the day before the opening, and craftsmen and technicians are still scurrying around to get everything ready.
Barely 24 hours later, Jensen will give the Danish Queen Margrethe II the scissors so that she can ceremoniously cut the red ribbon for the opening.
He will also tell the story of his grandfather's work table in his speech.
Since the weekend there has been a very interesting museum in Denmark that tells a story that has hardly been told in either the UK or Germany for a long time.
Up to 36,000 German refugees lived in the camp near the North Sea between 1945 and 1949. However, the museum does not just want to tell the story of the German refugees, but also a universal story of flight, from the past to the present day.
What the flight means for people, what connects the refugees.
"Now here we are after months of war in Europe," said the Queen at the opening, "and suddenly we see that flight is not something that happened a long time ago or only happens to people who are far away from us."
On the day before the opening, Jensen gives a tour of his museum.
Located in the camp's old hospital, a new entrance hall designed by a Danish star architect now connects the two wings.
The Federal Republic of Germany and Schleswig-Holstein also helped with the financing, and Vice Chancellor Robert Habeck gave a speech at the opening.
Excerpts from the 1951 Geneva Refugee Convention are on the wall in many languages in the very first room. Opposite, dots and numbers light up on a world map – they show where refugees have come to Denmark from over the past 100 years.
The first came from Russia, fleeing from the tsar.
The most recent entry is dedicated to the refugees from Ukraine.
"The war," says Jensen, "makes our museum even more relevant,
The German refugees arrived from early 1945, when Denmark was still occupied by the Wehrmacht.
They fled from the east from the Red Army.
Around 250,000 came between February and early May, mostly women, children and the elderly.
The German occupiers were initially responsible for them.
The Danes held back, the crew had inflicted deep wounds, and the Danish Medical Association refused to care for German refugees.