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The Churchill Club (Danish: Churchill-klubben) was a group of eight teenage schoolboys from Aalborg Cathedral School in the north of Jutland who performed acts of sabotage against the Germans during the occupation of Denmark in the Second World War.
Denmark’s first organized resistance group during the German occupation of Denmark in 1940-1945, the Churchill Club, was based in Aalborg Monastery. Many have certainly heard tales of the Churchill Club, the World War II resistance group, which consisted mainly of 14-17-year-old boys from Aalborg Cathedral School.
Oct 14, 2020 · This time they called themselves the Churchill Club after their fearless leader Winston Churchill in London. The Churchill Club had the same No. 1 rule as Fight Club — you do not talk about Churchill Club.
Knud Pedersen (26 December 1925, in Grenaa – 18 December 2014, in Gentofte) was a Danish artist and resistance leader. His career as a public figure started in 1942, when he and seven other young Danes founded the resistance group, Churchill Klubben (The Churchill Club).
Locale: Denmark. In The Boys Who Challenged Hitler: Knud Pedersen and the Churchill Club, Phillip Hoose tells the story of a group of Danish teenagers who risked their lives to resist the Nazi...
Nov 23, 2016 · The Churchill Club (Danish: Churchill-klubben) was a group of eight teenage schoolboys from Aalborg Cathedral School in the north of Jutland who performed acts of sabotage against the Germans during the occupation of Denmark in the Second World War.
After the meeting, during Churchill’s speech, Knud is surprised to find himself seated in the VIP box next to a prince and an admiral on the basis of his membership in the Churchill Club. Knud goes on to become an important artist and start the famous art lending library in Copenhagen.
