![]() ![]() The Gestapo pursued and arrested hundreds of Edelweiss Pirates. They grew bolder, painting anti-Nazi graffiti, distributing anti-war leaflets, and helping those persecuted by the Nazis. Fritz, Gertrude, and Jean and hundreds like them said no. ![]() And by the time they were teenagers, the Nazis expected them to be part of the war machine. Their earliest memories were of the Nazi rise to power and of their parents fighting Brownshirts in the streets, being sent to prison, or just disappearing.Īs Hitler’s grip tightened, these three found themselves trapped in a nation whose government contradicted everything they believed in. As children in 1933, they saw their world change. But they were also Germans living under Hitler, and every one of those acts could get them arrested or worse. Flowers in the Gutter tells the true story of the Edelweiss Pirates, teenagers who resisted the Nazis.įritz, Gertrud, and Jean were classic outsiders, their clothes were different, their music was rebellious, and they weren’t afraid to fight. ![]()
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