Edelweiss Pirates

Edelweiss Pirates

Edelweiss Pirates were a proto-hippie youth group in Germany who fought Nazis as they frolicked through the countryside playing guitars and singing Anti-Nazi folk songs at campfires. They sheltered escaped concentration camp prisoners and Allied soldiers in a program of armed resistance.

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