The Pirates Who Looted The Reich's Pride
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The Pirates Who Looted The Reich's Pride
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About this listen
Bartholomäus Schink was sixteen when the Nazis hanged him without trial beneath a railway overpass in Cologne. His body was left swinging for days as a warning.
His crime? Membership in the Edelweiss Pirates—working-class teenagers who said no to the Hitler Youth and paid for it. But here's the twist: after the war ended, Germany still didn't want to call them heroes.
While university students who distributed pamphlets got monuments and films, these street kids got erased. For sixty years, they were dismissed as delinquents and criminals. The question is: why?
In this episode, we dig into the resistance Germany tried to forget and uncover what it reveals about class, memory, and who gets to decide which rebels become martyrs and which ones stay buried.
Spoiler: history loves a clean story. The truth is a hell of a lot messier.
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