Later Years
Larsen had just turned 70 when he resigned as party chairman and had reached the end of his political career. He was recognized by his long service in the Communist Party of Denmark and his time as a concentration camp inmate.
Aksel Larsen died on 10 January 1972 and is interred at Fredens Kirkegård in Odense.
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