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The Boys Who Challenged Hitler (2015) - Simon - 12-09-2025
When the Nazis marched into Denmark in April 1940 there was little opposition, and most Danes quickly settled into a life governed by Germans. However, a group of teenage schoolboys, inspired by the stand that Norway had taken in the same circumstances, decided not to take it lying down; so 14 year-old Knud Pedersen, his brother and friends formed, initially the RAF club in Odense, and then, later, the Churchill Club in Aalborg. Their goal was to disrupt their occupiers anyway they could. These boys on bikes committed acts of sabotage, which though mostly minor – stealing guns, sabotaging cars – were a thorn in the side of the Nazi Germans. Eventually the boys were caught and jailed in Denmark, but their acts and subsequent trial and imprisonment, became the catalyst for a more significant and organized Danish resistance.