I consulted many Web sites, articles, and books in writing this book. Some material was in Danish, which I translated through software applications and with the assistance of professional translators. These resources were among the most helpful.
BOOKS
Ackerman, Peter, and Jack Duvall. A Force More Powerful: A Century of Non-Violent Conflict (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2000). Shows how popular movements used nonviolent action to overthrow dictators, obstruct military invaders, and secure human rights in country after country, over the past century.
Bartoletti, Susan Campbell. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler’s Shadow (New York: Scholastic, 2005). Explains the roles that millions of boys and girls unwittingly played in the horrors of Nazi Germany.
Lampe, David. Hitler’s Savage Canary: A History of the Danish Resistance in World War II (New York: Skyhorse Publishing, 2011). A detailed story of the Danish resistance movement.
Laursen, Peter. Churchill-Klubben som Eigil Foxberg oplevede den (The Churchill Club as Eigil Foxberg Experienced It) (self-published, 1987). Eigil’s memoir of the Churchill Club.
Levine, Ellen. Darkness Over Denmark: The Danish Resistance and the Rescue of the Jews (New York: Holiday House, 1986). A detailed account, structured around heroic characters, of Danish resistance to German occupation, and of the dramatic, just-in-time rescue of thousands of Danish Jews.
Lowry, Lois. Number the Stars (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1989). Classic work of fiction in which a ten-year-old Danish girl shelters her Jewish friend from the Nazis.
Pedersen, Knud. Bogen om Churchill-klubben: Danmarks Første Modstandsgruppe (The Book of the Churchill Club: Denmark’s First Resistance Group) (Copenhagen, Denmark: Lindhardt og Ringhof, 2013). Knud Pedersen’s account was first published in 1945 by Poul Branner and is now available in this revised and updated edition.
Tveskov, Peter H. Conquered, Not Defeated: Growing Up in Denmark During the German Occupation of World War II (Central Point, Oregon: Hellgate Press, 2003). Peter Tveskov was five years old when Germany invaded Denmark in April 1940. He blends vivid childhood memories with historical fact to tell the story of Danish resistance.
Werner, Emmy. A Conspiracy of Decency: The Rescue of the Danish Jews During World War II (New York: Basic Books, 2009). Living eyewitnesses detail acts of goodwill by people of several nationalities, including German Georg F. Duckwitz, who warned the Jews of their impending deportation, and the Danes who hid them and ferried them to Sweden.
ARTICLES
Jacobsen, Eigil Thune. “Who-What-When 1942?” (Copenhagen, Denmark: Politken Publishers, 1941).
Palmstrom, Finn, and Rolf Torgersen. “Preliminary Report on Germany’s Crimes Against Norway,” prepared by the Royal Norwegian Government for use at the International Military Tribunal, Oslo 1945. Available with a search on “Crimes against Norway” at Cornell University Law Library’s Donovan Nuremberg Trials Collection, ebooks.library.cornell.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?page=simple;c=nur.
WEB SITES
www.aalkat-gym.dk is the link to Aalborg Cathedral School’s Web site. The site can be translated to English, and includes source materials on the Churchill Club. See especially section 9, www.aalkat-gym.dk/om-skolen/skolens-historie/churchill-klubben-og-besaettelsen/churchill-9/.
www.kilroywashere.org/009-Pages/Eric/Eric.html will take readers to “A few personal notes on the life in Occupied Denmark 1940–45” by journalist Erik Day Poulsen. Poulsen grew up in Aalborg and went to Cathedral School a generation after the War. He has written a fine personal history, with a tribute to the Churchill Club.
natmus.dk/en/the-museum-of-danish-resistance is the link to the Museum of Danish Resistance 1940–1945, located in Copenhagen. The museum building was demolished following a fire in 2013, but its archives were saved and are still open at a new location. The museum is scheduled to be reopened in 2018.
TELEVISION PRODUCTION
Matador is a 24-part Danish TV series directed by Erik Balling, originally produced and broadcast between 1978 and 1982. It is set in the fictional Danish town of Korsbæk between 1929 and 1947, focusing on rival families. This television series so completely hooked Danish viewers that the entire series has been re-released a half-dozen times since it was first aired. It offers a fine way to understand turbulent Denmark from around the start of the Great Depression and through Nazi Germany’s occupation of Denmark in World War II. Caution: The series can be ordered online with English subtitles, but as of this writing it will not play on a standard North American DVD player. You need a multiregion PAL/NTSC DVD player to view it.
RECORDINGS
The BBC broadcast of Danish liberation can be heard on YouTube at www.youtube.com/watch?v=78pDhZb8hZo.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=zKSj_zOfOw8 provides over an hour of German marching songs such as those Knud Pedersen heard in the streets of Odense and Aalborg.