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The first Edelweißpiraten appeared in the late 1930s in western Germany, comprising mostly young people between 14 and 18.
Individual groups were closely associated with different regions but identifiable by a common style of dress with their own edelweiss badge and by their opposition to what they saw as the paramilitary nature of the Hitler Youth.
Subgroups of the Edelweißpiraten included the Navajos, centred on Cologne, the Kittelbach Pirates of Oberhausen and Düsseldorf, and the Roving Dudes of Essen.
According to one Nazi official in 1941, " Every child knows who the Kittelbach Pirates are.
They are everywhere ; there are more of them than there are Hitler Youth ...
They beat up the patrols ...
They never take no for an answer.
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