Edelweisspiraten (Resistance groups)

LC control no.	no2004049545
Descriptive conventions	rda
Corporate name heading	Edelweisspiraten (Resistance groups) *Browse this term in* LC Authorities or the LC Catalog
Variant(s)	Edelweiss Pirates (Resistance groups) Pirates de l'edelweiss (Resistance groups) Edelweisspiratenclub Club der Edelweisspiraten (Resistance groups) Edelweiss gang (Resistance group) Edelweiss organization (Resistance group)
Found in	Kohldampf, Knast un Kamelle : ein Edelweisspirat erzählt sein Leben, 2003 Encyclopedia of the Third Reich, c1991 (Edelweiss Pirates, (Edelweisspiraten), opposition groups of young workers, apprentices, and pupils who came together, particularly in the Rheinland, without firm organizational structure or unitary ideology; their common mark of recognition was an edelweiss on or under their left lapel, or a pin the color of the flower. The Nazis persecuted these youth groups) La Rose et l'Edelweiss, c2009: p. 7 (Pirates de l'edelweiss) Gefährliche Lieder, 2010: p. facing t.p. (Edelweisspiratenclub e.V.) museenkoeln, website, viewed November 25, 2019 Edelweisspiraten (Club der Edelweisspiraten) (October, 1942: Founding of the Club of the Edelweiss Pirates; February 4, 1943: Investigation against Cologne Edelweisspiraten; June 23, 1943: Prosecutor General raises charges at the Cologne Special Court against Cologne Edelweiss Pirates; September 15, 1943: Special Court sentenced Cologne Edelweisspiraten to high prison sentences) Flowers in the gutter, 2020: CIP title page (Edelweiss Pirates) Galley (Edelweiss Pirates; The Edelweiss Club--Cologne; The Edelweiss Club--Düsseldorf and Wuppertal; The Edelweiss Pirates--Beethoven Park; The Edelweiss Pirates--Ehrenfeld; Edelweiss gang, a loosely-knit network of teen-age lads, banded together to sabotage the Nazis in every way possible; They wore a gaudy five and ten cent store flower pin underneath their left lapel as their only identification; Edelweiss organization; an almost leaderless nation-wide gang of boys that took its name from the Alpine flower) Klapperfeld.DE website, viewed November 25, 2019 Exhibition>Zeitzeuge Wolfgang Breckheimer>Edelweisspiraten (The Edelweisspiraten originated in the years 1938/39, after the bishops youth had been banned and the regulation of the "Jugenddienstpflicht" from the 25.2.1939 the young people had finally forced into the Hitlerjugend or the federation of German girls; Members of the Edelweiss Pirates were predominantly young workers from the Rhine-Ruhr area; Their distinguishing mark was an edelweiss under the left cuff or a edelweiss colored pin; it is estimated that the edelweiss pirates had several thousand followers, aged between 14 and 17 years; the term "Edelweisspiraten" was a provocation for oppositional youth, which was taken over by the resisters themselves only in the middle of World War II)
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