Opp from Young

• Who were the Swing youth?

  • started in Hamburg, 1939, spread to Berlin and other German cities
  • challenged Hitler Youth > wore fashionable clothes
  • listened to swing music > Nazis saw it as "Black music"
  • Took inspo from American culture
• What did the Edelweiss Pirates do?

  • painted anti-Nazi slogans, sheltered deserters and beat up Nazi officials 1944, the Cologne Pirates killed the Gestapo chief.
• Punishments for the Edelweiss Pirates?

  • 1942, 700 members were arrested
  • 1944, 12 members were publicly hanged in Cologne
• Who were the Edelweiss Pirates?

  • A youth opposition group in Nazi Germany, who rejected the strict, military-style lifestyle of the Hitler Youth
  • Showed their resistance by engaging in activities like writing anti-Nazi graffiti, singing pre-Nazi songs, and wearing American-style clothing
  • Their symbol was the edelweiss, an Alpine flower.