Edelweiss Pirates
Deutsche Welle has an interesting article about the Edelweiss Pirates, an anti-Nazi German youth movement whose members carried out numerous low-level acts of resistance and defiance during the war. A feature film about their exploits played at the Montreal film festival in September.
posted on Wednesday, November 10th, 2004 at 5:51 pm
One of the scary things about totalitarian societies is how most people, including myself, don’t have the personality to resist them. The people who do often appear anti-social or eccentric because they just don’t respond to authority and peer pressure as much as other people do. Most people’s ethical behavior depends upon being in a relatively ethical society. We are pretty lucky.
Interesting: it appears that you deleted troll’s comment, the counter is set back to 1, but I still see it. Unless I hit the “Preview” button – then it’s gone. You may have a problem with the way cache is configured for your web server.
When I was in high school, some friends of mine formed a band called The Edelweiss Pirates. Later on, when they were gigging and trying to get noticed, they changed the name to just Edelweiss, because they thought it sounded more cool.