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This youth was created in 1922 first known as the Youth League of the Nazi party. It was then renamed and now known as "Hitlerjugend" or Hitler Youth, this league was made up of German boys ages ranging from 14-18 a couple of years later another group was made by this time composed of girls. The Hitler youth was made up of eight million members making it the biggest youth group in the world.This group was initially focused with regular activities such as camping,sports or games but eventually was becoming more focused on training these boys for combat.

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A group of teens between the age of 12-17 that are known for rebelling against Hitler

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A small group of teenagers rebelled both culturally and politically and since there wasn't much they could do due to their age their way of rebelling included listening to american music, growing their hair long, and graduating to sabotage.

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Quote from Hitler as he described the youth league

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Quote from Hitler as he described the youth league

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“These boys and girls enter our organizations at 10 years of age, and often for the first time get a little fresh air; after four years of the Young Folk they go on to the Hitler Youth, where we have them for another four years.And even if they are still not complete National Socialists, they go to Labor Service and are smoothed out there for another six, seven months.And whatever class consciousness or social status might still be left the Wehrmacht will take care of that.”

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He was hanged by the Nazis when he was only 16.

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These groups would rebel which is dangerous enough by making sure to gather the leaflets dropped from planes before the Nazis snatched them up; they would organize leaflet drops in nearby towns so the local police wouldn’t recognize them. But they would take an extra step and risk themselves by shielding German deserters and escaped concentration and labor camp prisoners, and supplying adult resistance groups with explosives.

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Born in 1924 in Cologne and was going to be part of the League of German Girls but instead she rebelled and she co-founded Cologne’s Edelweiss Pirates. She then led the Pirates’ leaflet drop from the top of Cologne’s train station. She was jailed for nine months at Brauweiler, where the Gestapo beat her and once threw her down the stairs, breaking her arm.

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The Edelweiss Pirates were groups of youths who opposed Nazi rule. The Edelweiss Pirates were primarily opposed to the way the Hitler Youth movement had taken

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“Our song is freedom, love and life / We’re the Pirates of the Edelweiss.”

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Walter Mayer, Edelweiss Pirate born the Rhineland, Germany, 1927

As a youth, Walter questioned the German superiority and anti-Semitism he was taught. His father, an anti-Nazi, refused to allow Walter to enter one of the Adolf Hitler Schools, but did permit him to join the Hitler Youth. However, Walter's rebellious streak led him to hide a Jewish friend in his basement. He also formed a gang that played pranks on young Nazis and helped French prisoners of war. They called themselves Edelweiss Pirates (as did other groups of opposition youth in Germany). In 1943 Walter was caught taking shoes from a bombed-out store, arrested, and imprisoned. He was eventually deported to the Ravensbrueck concentration camp, where he was forced to work in the stone quarry. In 1945, Walter contracted tuberculosis and decided to escape before he was killed. Under cover of heavy fog, he reached a farmhouse. The farmer gave him his son's army uniform and helped him board a train home to Duesseldorf. Walter recovered after hospitalisation, and later moved to the United States.

Transcript of accounts in verbal interview
'We had, uh, meetings generally, at least, well, generally at a cafe on Kings Avenue, which is - in Germany there are a number of streets which are well known like Fifth Avenue. Well Kings Avenue in Duesseldorf is one of the best known avenues in the world. It's gorgeous, wide, and has a river in the middle and all chestnut trees and so on. Well there was a cafe and in the back of the cafe was a pool room. Uh, we used to play pool, and we had our little meetings there and one would say, "We have a new member," and, uh, we would ask him questions, test him, and "Why do you like to join us?" and, you know, wanted to have some assurance. And, and, uh, then we, we pro..."What are we going to do next?" and maybe one would say, "You know, the Hitler Youths, they all, uh, store their, uh, equipment at such-and-such a place. Let's make it disappear." "Okay, when are we going to meet?" Such-and-such a time. And that's what we did. It became, uh, it came to the point where we became enemies and people began to look for us because we went a little too drastic, we, you know we started maybe by deflating the tires, then we made the whole bicycle disappear, so it came to the point where too many complaints.

'On April the 12th, April the 12th, 1943, I was taken to court. By trial, the state attorney--I think they call it here, district attorney - state attorney, asked for the death penalty. My father - this was first time I saw my father and my mother - uh, my mother couldn't, couldn't control herself, so she was crying. My, my father didn't quite know what to do. They had two attorneys. When he recommended the death penalty, I know they kind of jumped over and held my arm and said, "That's not the last word." Then kind of the judge and the state attorney and somebody else, some functionary, they kind of argued about whether it was looting, or whether it was theft. The idea was that the two, uh, had different consequences. And, uh, so they retired then and when he came back, the judge decided, or had decided that it was--well, before that they had an argument and the state attorney said, uh,"I would call it theft, but this man, having had intimate contact with our enemy, and being the leader of, uh, the Edelweisspiraten [Edelweiss Pirates], having destroyed, uh, state goods, state property, does not deserve any kind of consideration." Well, when the judge came back and said, on the grounds of his outstanding, uh, involvement in, in athletism, and considering, uh, the age and the circumstances, I condemn you to one to four years in prison.'

From the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

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Interview with an Edelweiss Pirate - Walter Mayer

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Transcript of a short interview with Walter Mayer, a member of the German youth anti-Nazi organisation, the Edelweiss Pirates.

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Why hasn't much been heard about the pirates if they were a league of teens who were brave enough to protest against Hitler. Well in 1947 sent one young woman to prison for five months for ‘refusal to work’. The young became enemies of the new order too. This would include the political opponents of the Nazis that had been either forced into exile, murdered or hid their politics.

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They would involve in sexual activities since Hitler tried to prevent it 

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Hitler created two groups one made of girls and one made up of boys thus leading the pirates to include both(A form to protest)

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About 5,000 Edelweiss Pirates are thought to have protested against the Nazi's participating in multiple types of violent and nonviolent resistance. While their work couldn't do much in those times after being silenced they took a stand and did what most people were afraid to do. And for that the Edelweiss pirates are recognized for their bravery