Niels Skov Saborah Hopkinson Summary

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The interviews of survivors, saboteurs, and spies. Deborah Hopkinson, the author of this book, reconstructs the story and lets us, the readers, realize again, how severe the situation was in Denmark, when the Nazi's invaded their neighbor country. However, before, the Nazis thought that it was going to be a pushover, they were partially right. As the Nazis invaded Denmark, the danish government pretty much cleared the passage for them. But not all Danes were trying to accept the country's surrender. People like Niels Skov, Jorgen Kieler and his sister Elsebet, and his friend Klaus Rønholt, and Tommy Sneum were acting across the country, trying to let those Gerry's suffer. To introduce, Niels Skov was a 20 year old apprentice toolmaker, who was surprised, enraged and ashamed that people were going to their daily lives after the invasion. The Nazis were …show more content…

I was 1943, when he, and his siblings and friends to write an illegal anti-Nazi underground news sheet, Frit Danmark, aimed a fellow students. Another resistance supported was Jorgen's sister Elsebet, and his friend Klaus Rønholt. When the rumors spread that there was going to be a roundup of Danish Jews, both of them went across the country and asked for donations from people to help rescue as many Jews as possible. Finally, the last man to introduce is Tommy Sneum, a flight lieutenant in Denmark's air force, but after the surrender, he left the military and became a one man resistance plan. But more importantly, he was the one who found out that the Germans had some kind of a warning system in place around Denmark to warm if any enemy planes are approaching. Tommy, then later goes to take pictures and escapes the Denmark to give those pictures to the Great Britain, as soon as

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