Gabe Hochstetler Resister Project by GABRIEL HOCHSTETLER

'' Fight Song'' by Rachel Platten

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The Youth Oppssition fought against the Nazis like their life depended on it.

Intro to the Youth opposition

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The Youth Opposition was A group based in Germany to fight back against the Nazis. The group is known for its anti-Hitler signs they would post up all around Berlin and other German cities. They are a very big part of Nazi history for always fighting back.

Picture of the Youth Opposition

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This is just one small group of many in the Youth Opposition.

YouTube Video on The Youth Opposition

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This a great video to better understand what this resistance group was about.

The purpose of The Youth Opposition

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The main purpose of the Youth Opposition was to fight back against the Nazis. This group mostly found themselves fighting the Hitler Youth because they were the same age. But some fighters fought against grown Nazi's

Youth Opposition celebration

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Big moment for the Youth Opposition

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One of the most famous youth movements that campaigned against Hitler was the White Rose movement founded by Hans and Sophie Scholl. Members of this movement openly campaigned against Hitler and the continuation of World War Two, which they believed was lost as early as 1942.

'' Don't Stop Beliving'' by Journey

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The Youth Opposition was faced with hardship and arrest but they didn't stop believing.

Emanuel Ringelblum A big contributor to the Youth Opposition

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Emanuel Ringelblum, the “historian of the Warsaw ghetto,” compiled an extensive archive of documents depicting the everyday life of the ghetto’s doomed inhabitants. The Ringelbaum Archive is the most important eyewitness accounting of the Holocaust to survive the war

The Youth Opposition takes major damage

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The Nazis clamped down on the Edelweiss Pirates. In 1942, 700 members were arrested. In 1944, 12 were publicly hanged in Cologne to send a message.

Youth Opposition symbol

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The symbol that made the Youth Opposition who they are.

Anti Hitler symbol

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This symbol could get you killed if you got caught using it.

Life before the war

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Many of the members were normal kids like us. They would go to school and would do normal kid things. But when the war started it all changed for these kids.

A book written to remember them.

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This book about the Youth Opposition shows how hard thees kids worked and how we should remember them as heroes

Quote from Mark A. Cooper

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“War was funny like that: one minute you could try and block it and have the most wonderful thoughts, the next you were back in the nightmare.”
― Mark A. Cooper, The Edelweiss Express

Nazi Response

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Nevertheless, government repression never managed to break the spirit of most groups, which constituted a . While the group members assisted army deserters and others hiding from the Third Reich, they have yet to receive recognition as a resistance movement

The Origin of this resistance group

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The first Pirates appeared in the late 1930s in western Germany, comprising mostly young people between 14 and 18. Individual groups were closely associated with different regions. Still, they were identifiable by a common style of dress with their own Edelweiss badge and by their opposition to what they saw as the paramilitary nature of the Hitler Youth.

After The War

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Groups identifying themselves as Edelweißpiraten conducted many violent attacks against Soviet Russian and Polish army men Author Peter Schult witnessed an attack against a Polish black marketeer. There were also attacks against German women who were known to have been friends or intimate with British soldiers.

The Impact the Youth Opposition left

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Nowadays people need to remember that ordinary people, in this case, working-class teenagers from 14 to 18 years of age can successfully resist even in hard places