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Knud Pedersen was born in Grena, Denmark
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Nazi party and Hitler came to power in Germany, soon to become a military group in WW2
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Nazi troops invade Denmark in an operation called Operation Wessenburg
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Knud started a resistance group called the Churchill club, named after the Prime Minister of Britian, Winston Churchill. The group was started after meeting with friends that also didn't like the way their country was "giving in" to Nazi Germany.
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The Churchill club went out and started painting "vaernemager" or "war profiteer" in blue paint on the offices and homes of known Danish Nazi sympathers.
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The Churchill Club insignia was an immitation of the Nazi Swastika. It was blue and had arrows shooting out of each line. The symbol stood for "Flames of rebellion to kill Nazis!"
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Denmark was at it's second year of occupation by the Nazis. The Danish people expressed their opposition by wearing symbols of national pride. Kings badges were a symbol of solidarity with the Danish government.
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The Churchill club grows to 20 members. Members went to great lengths to keep the club a secret from family.
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The Churchill club started stealing weapons from the German soliders. They didn't know how to use the weapons, but keot on taking them so the soldiers wouldn't have them.
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The churchill club decided to attack a German outpost, but then decided against it because they aren't murderers.
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The Churchill club made explosives out of stolen Nazi weapons. They decided to blow up the Aalborg railroad yard which was the Nazi base in Aalborg. The rail car they blew up contained air plane wings. The Danish firemen were slow to help the Germans put out the fire because they were afraid of more explosions.
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Members of the Churchill club have been followed and then arrested. They had been arrested for stealing German soldier's weapons.
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The students at Cathederal School are walking with their classmates in solidarity with their jailed classmates.
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The Churchill gang went to trail and were sentenced depending on age. Knud was sentenced for 3 years in Nyborg State Prison.
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Members of the Churchill gang would escape prision at night and attack German military cars. The boys escaped 19 nights in a row before they were caught.
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Knud gets a teacher in jail. The teacher's name was Mr. Worsae and he encouraged Knud's interest in art, and was really nice to him
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Danish people begin to strike. Danish workers want higher wages, people in 33 towns stop working. Germans prohibit public meetings and gathers after dark. Germany takes over the government putting troops at railroad stations, power plants, factories, and prisions.
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Knud and his brother are released from jail, they try to go back to a normal life, but Knud rejoins the resistance.
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Knud went back to school and Joined The S.O.E or the Special Operations Executive, a British group that worked with European resistance groups. became the leader of K company and his job was to move ammo, weapons, and explosives to hiding place from hiding place so that the Germans would not detect them
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5 years of German occupation was over. The Danish people laughed cried, sang and danced in the streets.
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15000 collaborators were arrested and tried in Danish courts, 13,521 were found guilty, 46 were executed,
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Churchill Cub meets with Winston Churchill at a dinner in their honnor. Winston Churchill was moved by the story of how they had formed and what they had done to help.
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Knud founded the first art library in the world in Copenhagen. He felt art should be available to all people, rich or poor . People could check out art like library books.
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Knud pedersen died and was buried in Copenhagen with other Danish heroes like Hans Christen Andersen
