The Boys Who Challenged Hitler: Knud Pedersen and the Churchill Club

Introduction-Chapter 3

Reading Check

1. “[...] the famous Danish boatlift of most of the nation’s Jewish population to Sweden in late 1943, just before German forces could round them up and pack them by rail to death camps.” (Introduction)

2. The Club is named after former UK Prime Minister Winston Churchill, “whose fighting spirit they admired.” (Introduction)

3. “[T]hat Denmark had become a ‘protectorate’ of Germany” (Chapter 1)

4. Its geographic location meant that it could provide transportation and farming land, as well as a buffer from the UK. (Chapter 2)

5. Because he was afraid that it would transform into a pathway for the Hitler Youth (Chapter 2)

Short Answer

1. “The Churchill Club” was a group of schoolboys from northern Denmark who “got the resistance started.” They would carry out attacks against German property, as well as steal German weapons. (Introduction)

2. Knud is one of the original members of The Churchill Club. At the time of writing, he managed The Art Library, where a person can rent a piece of art (similar to a library). After a previous writer drops out, Knud invites Hoose to write his story.