Who doesn't like to read detective stories! Detective stories are very popular, especially among school-college teenagers. Many people think of themselves as big detectives while reading detective stories. As a boy, I liked to read detective stories, but thought of myself as a detective; There are very few such people. Almost everyone had a latent desire to be a detective when it came to boyhood.
The intelligence services of different countries also use teenagers for various purposes. History shows that the active participation of teenagers in the freedom struggle of different countries. Adolescent fighters also played an important role in the great liberation war of Bangladesh.
Similarly, in World War II, a group of teenagers formed an intelligence agency; Whose name is Churchill Club. A group of 14 year old school students were the founders and members of this club. Their purpose was to resist the Germans. The story of the heroism of this intelligence group formed against the German Nazi forces is written in golden letters in the pages of history. Today's discussion is about this teenage intelligence agency called Churchill Club.
Getting started
The Churchill Club originated in Denmark during World War II. World War II began in 1939. There were two main parties in this war, the Allied Powers and the Axis Powers. Allies include the United States, the United Kingdom, France, etc .; Axis powers included Germany, Italy, Japan and other countries. These are things we all know.
On September 1, 1939, German troops entered Poland at the behest of Hitler. As a result, Great Britain and France declared war on Germany on 3 September. Interestingly, from September 3 to April 6, 1940, neither Britain nor France fought an armed war with the Nazis. This period is called 'fake war'.
On April 9, 1940, Nazi forces occupied Denmark without bloodshed. The German army declared that the Danes should cooperate with them; Otherwise the Nazis will start brutal oppression on the common people.
Denmark was not so advanced in weapons at that time. There was no possibility that Hitler's superpower would be able to defeat Germany in a military battle. So the local administration was forced to cooperate with the Nazis. Full control of the Nazi forces was established in Denmark.
School runaway boy team
A small high school in the city of Aalborg, Denmark. Name, ‘Alberg Cathedral High School’. The announcement of the Nazi forces on April 9 reached there as well. Hearing such an announcement, the students were heartbroken. They thought of themselves as slaves of the Germans.
One day, two boys from Odense, Denmark, came to Cathedral High School. They are two brothers, Nad Pederson and Jens Pederson. These two brothers seem to have a strange nature, careful vision. These two brothers can be easily distinguished from others by their hubris and eloquence.
Cathedral High School students learned from the Pederson Brothers that an anti-Nazi intelligence agency had been formed in Odense. The name of the organization is Royal Air Force Club (RAF). Its members want to oust the Nazis from Denmark.
In fact, the club in Odense was founded by the Pederson brothers. They said that with the cooperation of everyone, they can set up such an organization here as well.
The classmates were encouraged to hear about the two brothers. Initiatives were taken to form an intelligence agency to overthrow the Nazis. The intelligence agency was formed with a total of 6 people including two brothers. The Churchill Club was named after the British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, one of the main leaders of the Allies. Nod Pederson was elected head of the Churchill club.
Four in one
The activities of the Churchill Club are organized into four levels. The work of each faction will be different, the leader will be different. The four factions were called Collector Team, Propaganda Team, Technology Team, Attack Team.
1. Collector Team: The task of the collector team was to collect necessary items, weapons and money for conducting the activities. The collector team used to collect donations from different sources as per their need. With the money, various plans of the propaganda team and technology team were implemented.
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2. Propaganda Team: The job of the propaganda team was to intimidate the Nazis, and to give courage to the Danish people. The propaganda team used to spread rumors to intimidate the Nazis. Apart from this, various campaigns including distribution of leaflets were carried out to warn or encourage the general public.
3. Technology Team: The technology team mainly worked on equipment and weapons. It was the job of the technology team to build the necessary weapons, to make explosives, to maintain various instruments.
4. Attack Team: The attack team was the Frontier Force of Churchill Club. The attack team was responsible for carrying out all types of covert attacks.
Each team at the Churchill Club was dependent on one another. Churchill Club's range of activities gradually increased with the combination of four teams.
Cowboy of Pitch
Churchill
The movement of the club started. The propaganda team rode bicycles in the dark of night and secretly distributed leaflets in various places. That's why the locals call them Cowboys of Pitch.
Their parents didn't know about them, and the few who knew them kept quiet. Members of the Churchill Club continued to carry out various spies.
The technology team succeeded in making the bomb. The bomber struck shortly after noon in front of a military barracks. Unfortunately the bomb did not explode. The technology department is trying to make bombs more perfect.
Meanwhile, the attack team was continuing their work. They set fire to the army's parked cars using small gasoline-filled crates, sometimes tactically polishing the shoes of Nazi soldiers for military information.
This time the Churchill Club members turned their attention to collecting weapons. He would sneak into the soldiers' makeshift tents, steal weapons, and remove weapons from parked cars. When British aircraft were parachuted and dropped weapons. They collected them, dug a garden field, made a warehouse and stored them. Within a few days, their weapons collection became quite good.
By that time, the Nazis were in a frenzy, and the news of the Churchill Club had spread everywhere. Danish police were strictly instructed to arrest the revolutionaries. In fact, the Danish police did not carry out raids on their own. They thought that the work they could not do after the government uniform, at least someone is doing it! As a result, the movement of the Churchill Club began to intensify.
Arrested
In 1942 a woman saw a teenager stealing weapons from a tent. Three students were arrested. The trial began two and a half months after the arrest. The judge wanted to release them, but the prisoners pleaded guilty. The three teenagers were sent to the King Hans Street jail.
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The indomitable Churchill Club
The teenagers could not be stopped even after being sent to jail. The three prisoners lived in the same cell. One day the brother of one of them came to visit the jail with a newspaper. Inside the paper was a small saw. Tactically, the prisoners would go out at night with saws. Then they would go to the club at the top of the prison wall, do various destructive activities, and they would enter the jail again before dawn.
Suddenly a curfew was imposed one night. After the evening, if anyone is out without an identity card, it is ordered to detain. The news did not reach the prisoners as they were incarcerated. As soon as he went out that night, two of them were caught on the street. One by one, every member of the Churchill Club was arrested. Churchill Club members conducted a total of 25 successful raids before his arrest. It is said that the operation of Churchill Club caused a loss of about 160 million kroner to the Nazi forces, which is equivalent to about 1622 crore 80 lakh Bangladeshi rupees!
Release
World War II ended in 1945. Churchill Club members were released from prison as soon as Denmark was liberated. Gradually word of the Churchill Club spread throughout the country, reaching beyond the borders of the country. Everyone knows the heroic deeds of this secret group founded by the students of Cathedral High School in Alberg. The whole country showed considerable respect to the Churchill Club.
Appendix
With the outbreak of World War II, the Churchill Club ceased to exist. The members are busy with their work. Churchill club leader Ned Pederson joined the arts after his release from prison. He spent most of his life writing, drawing and so on. This revolutionary leader died on December 16, 2014.
Various fiction or non-fiction books and movies have been made about the Churchill Club. Nad Pederson himself has written four books on the subject. There are two such famous books,
The Boys of St. Petri.
The Boys who Challenged Hitler
The story of the Churchill Club ends here. Six members of the Churchill Club showed how to do the impossible. Despite being a 14-year-old schoolboy, these naughty teenagers showed the light of their boundless courage by drawing a line of thought on the foreheads of the Nazi forces of immense power. These 7 teenagers have left their name forever by mixing patriotism with courage and intelligence.
The story of this Churchill Club adventure will forever be a source of inspiration for teenagers in exploited and oppressed communities around the world.
