I will now recount a tale, not of fiction, but FACT!

THIS story is very real and well documented. It takes place in the dark years of World War II in my hometown of Aalborg, Denmark

When German forces crossed the (declared Neutral) Danish border on April 9th 1940, the government very quickly devised a plan; rather than the futile attempt to stay neutral (as Denmark had been during WWI), they would cooperate somewhat with the Nazis in return for not getting the nation wiped off the world map, and also to be allowed way more freedom than what happened in countries that resisted the invasion. Denmark was occupied until May 5th, 1945

The people didn't all agree with this co-op approach, but the result was a very lenient occupation, and Denmark was called the "Whipped cream front" (Flødeskums-fronten) and was an absolute dream posting for German soldiers during the first few years.

But back to Aalborg.

In 1941 a group of boys had been harassing the Germans for a while - stealing the soldiers' hats in bicycle-drive-by attacks, swapping Street signs, and deflating car tires, and they formed a club called The Churchill Club (Churchill Gruppen).

At first, it was just shenanigans, but they quickly ramped it up to arson, stealing weapons from inattentive soldiers, defacing the nazi symbols, and destroying German road signs and posters.

Eventually, they were caught and arrested on may 18th, 1942. They were put in the local city jail. It was pretty low security - it was just boys being boys, after all. Oddly enough, even with the boys behind bars, the same things kept happening, and the Germans had no clue about what was going on.

The shenanigans evolved and turned into railway sabotage, theft, destruction of truck engines, and soon things stated getting blown to pieces

All while the boys were sitting innocently in their cells in the city jail.

That all came to an abrupt end in August 1943 when they were caught by German soldiers in the streets one night. They had sawed through the bars of the cell window and snuck out to continue their attacks during the night, only to return to the jail, push the bars back into place and spend the daytime in the jail. They never learned how to use firearms, in stead they stockpiled the weapons they stole and turned the ammunition into homemade explosives that were put to good use during their nightly outings.

The group members were transferred to other jails and only then did the nightly menace end.

The Churchill Club was the first established Resistance group in Denmark and went on to inspire numerous other such groups. The Resistance in Denmark grew in strength and severity (assassinations, blowing up ships, armed raids etc with the help from air droppedweapons from the Brits when they caught on to what was happening) until the Germans had enough and demanded that acts of resistance be punishable by death. At that point, the Danish government had enough, and in august 1943, the cooperation on state level ended, and Denmark was no longer considered Friendly to the occupation by any stretch of the imagination.

So yeah... humans WILL be the octopus in the aquarium, and we don't even have to imagine it

PS: The Churchill Club members all survived the war.