Edelweiss Pirates: The Anti-Hitler Youth

Barthel Schink was a German teenager who led a resistance movement of Hitler Youth dropouts who fought Nazi tyranny. Born to a postal worker and a homemaker in Cologne in 1927, Barthel was one of five children. Like millions of other young Germans he was conscripted into the Hitler Youth, the only legally permitted youth … Continue reading Edelweiss Pirates: The Anti-Hitler Youth