Les Pirates De L'edelweiss

[Antoninov]

Campaigning for Cologne's Maligned Resistance

extrait:

On November 10th 1944, the Gestapo hanged 13 people in a residential street in Cologne without trial. Six of those killed were teenagers, members of an underground group called the Edelweiss Pirates. An alternative movement to the Hitler Youth, the Edelweiss Pirates grew their hair long and risked arrest, torture and their lives to carry out small acts of sabotage against the Nazi regime.

Sixty years later they are still officially listed as petty thieves and criminals. Their acts of resistance -- while having been recognized by the state of Israel -- have not yet been officially acknowledged here in Germany. That’s about to change with a new initiative by the District President of Cologne Jürgen Peters who wants to rehabilitate the Edelweiss Pirates.

While the city of Cologne debates the acknowledgement of the Pirates' war efforts, Jean Jülich, a surviving member of the group, has published his memoirs and is supporting an upcoming film about the Pirates, due for release on the 60th anniversary of his friends' execution.

[Antoninov]

Et un autre petit mouvement de 'résistance':

Remembering the "White Rose"

extraits:

60 years ago, on Feb. 22, 1943, three students of the Munich-based resistance group “White Rose” were executed for inciting young people to rise against Hitler -- a fact that many young Germans today are unaware of.

Two months after the execution of Sophie and Hans Scholl and Christoph Probst, three further members of the "White Rose", among them 49-year-old philosophy professor, Kurt Huber, the editorial brain behind the leaflets, were also sentenced to death and summarily executed.

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[Ronnie Hayek]

je crois qu'un film sur eux qui vient de sortir

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En tout cas, je me souviens d'en avoir vu un il y a une dizaine d'années sur Arte.