The Boys Who Challenged Hitler: Knud Pedersen and the Churchill Club by Phillip Hoose

Author:Phillip Hoose [Hoose, Phillip]
Language: eng
Format: azw
ISBN: 9780374302726
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)
Published: 2015-05-12T04:00:00+00:00

Letter from Kaj Munk to Edvard Pedersen

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Kaj Munk

Kaj Harald Leininger Munk, commonly called Kaj Munk (1898–1944), was a Danish playwright, poet, Lutheran priest, and activist.

Munk’s plays were mostly written in the 1920s and performed during the 1930s. He wrote about deep subjects such as religion, Marxism, and Darwin’s view of evolution.

Munk at first expressed admiration for Hitler’s success in getting Germans back to work during the Great Depression, but his attitude soured as he observed Hitler’s persecution of German Jews.

His plays Han Sidder ved Smeltediglen (He Sits by the Melting Pot) and Niels Ebbesen were direct, powerful attacks on Nazism that aroused Hitler’s ire. The author was arrested and subsequently assassinated by the Gestapo on January 4, 1944.

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