Edelweiss Pirates Rebels, Runaways, and Resistance in Nazi Germany

They were teenagers who refused to conform.In the shadow of Nazi Germany, a generation of young people in and around Cologne found ways to escape the rigid discipline of the Hitler Youth. Calling themselves the Edelweiss Pirates, they gathered after dark, traveled into the countryside, challenged Nazi authority, and, for some, went further, fighting Hitler Youth patrols and spreading Allied propag...