Posted on 11/10/2022 5:41:26 PM PST by CheshireTheCat
On this date in 1944, the Gestapo publicly hanged 13 men without trial at an S-Bahn station near Cologne.
Heavily bombed by the Allies in World War II, the Rhineland industrial center had spawned two overlapping anti-Nazi movements both represented in this evil baker’s dozen. Their purchase on posterity’s laurels of anti-Nazi “resistance” has been debated ever since.
The first of these were the Edelweiss Pirates (English Wikipedia entry | German), a thousands-strong network of dissident young people dating back to the 1930s after Berlin made youth membership in the Sieg Heiling Hitler Youth (HJ) mandatory.
Often derogated as mere “delinquents”* — who failed to articulate “a positive view of goals”** — the heavily working-class Edelweißpiraten were expressly delinquent from the Third Reich’s project of youth indoctrination.
“Our banding together occurred primarily because the HJ was dominated by a certain compulsion to which we did not want to submit,” one “pirate” declared to Gestapo interrogators. Another said that his clique simply wanted “to spend our leisure time going on trips as free boys and to do and act as we pleased.”†
Many looked longingly back on the Bündische Jugend, romantic and far less authoritarian traditions of youth outdoorsmanship that the new regime had suppressed.‡ These pirates shirked their Hitler Youth “responsibilities” and did their rambling without odious political officers, repurposing old hiking tunes into confrontational subversive songs that they backed up with a penchant for fistfights with the HJ. A song of one band, the Navajos, ran:
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Yesterday was also the 84th anniversary of Kristallnacht “night of the broke glass” 1938 that kicked off the Holocaust.
Edelweiss Pirates—interesting name. An edelweiss (noble white) is a flower that grows high in the Alps, far from the maritime habitat of pirates.
A really bad idea would be to advertise people buy KFC to celebrate Kristallnacht. So they did;
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4107955/posts
LOL!!! Holy cow, whose idea was that? A relative of Ilhan Omar?
Apparently there was an AI application which automatically generated messages on named holidays.
I watched a video on them recently. Pretty hardcore, resisted the Nazis right up to the end.
The have a great movie out on this.
Watch trailer….
https://youtu.be/i6j-WLFZkpM
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