In the book, “The Boys Who Challenged Hitler” by Phillip Hoose, the theme of resistance is very prevalent. The book is about a boy, Knud Pedersen, and his brother, Jens Pedersen, who absolutely despise the Germans who occupy Denmark, their country. They hate how their government didn’t resist at all and let the Nazis take over. They realized that if their government and their army wouldn’t do anything to fight the oppressors, they would. They started a group called the Churchill club, named after the British prime minister that they admired, Winston Churchill. The group operates mostly in secret, and they have trouble finding others to join, because they don’t know who they can trust to keep their secret, as many Danish people are in favor of the German occupation at the time. This club connect to the theme of resistance because it is about how these boys resisted accepting the German occupation. While their resistance wasn’t super effective short term, their club inspired many other Danes to rise up. Resistance doesn’t have to be with tons of weapons and waging military-style armed battles, and it doesn’t have to be doing anything like blowing up entire cars. However, the members of the Churchill Club were only teenagers, and they did steal weapons and smash or vandalize German vehicles. This connects to the reading I read yesterday about Denmark’s large resistance later in the War. One thing that they did was when they received word that all the Jews in Denmark were going to be shipped to extermination camps in Germany, they helped over 7,000 Danish Jews escape to Sweden, which was neutral. Those who couldn’t escape were hidden too. This makes me think that the while the Churchill club resistance didn’t do much immediately, they caused much greater things to happen.