These TEENAGERS Were Executed By The Nazis…
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During the Second World War, and within the Third Reich there were many people who resisted and opposed Hitler and his Nazi government. There were a number of youth groups and organised resistors that took action such as sabotage, producing leaflets and subverting what was expected of them. One group was the Edelweiss Pirates who were made up of teenagers who would go on trips and listen to banned music such as Jazz, and they would also beat up members of the Hitler Youth. They opposed the fact young men were being forced into joining the youth group that was training them to become soldiers. The Edelweiss Pirates were active in many German towns and cities, but Himmler initially viewed them as a minor irritant and an annoyance. But as time went on in the war, the SS and Gestapo took harsher action against them. Many were sent to concentration camps along with their parents, and some were even executed. Inside of Cologne, one group known as the Ehrenfeld Pirates who carried out attacks on Nazi supporters were rounded up. On a huge gallows in front of Ehrenfeld Train Station in Cologne they were executed, and a number of these victims were just teenagers. Join us today as we look at 'The HORRIFIC Execution Of The Edelweiss Pirates.' To support our channel, please subscribe. Check out our SECOND CHANNEL TheFortress for a new video EVERY DAY! Subscribe to this by clicking this link: https://www.youtube.com/c/TheFortresss Thanks for watching! Support the channel by subscribing, liking, and sharing. Follow me on Twitter: https://twitter.com/theuntoldpast Follow me on Instagram: www.instagram.com/theuntoldpast Disclaimer: All opinions and comment stated below in the Comments section do not represent the opinion of TheUntoldPast. All opinions and comments and dialogue should discuss the video above in a historical manner. TheUntoldPast does not accept any racism, profanity, insults, sexism or any negative discussion aimed at an individual. TheUntoldPast has the right to delete any comment with this content inside it and also ban the user from the channel.

Steinbruck took things further and he decided to take up arms and to hunt members of the [NSDAP]. He shot a guard, and then also killed a member of the SA and a civilian. But they also ambushed a member of the Hitler Youth by some train tracks, and they tried to steal some explosives. Sixty‐three people were arrested, and nineteen of them were teenagers. But the Edelweiss Pirates [so‐called for their lumpenproletarian status] of the group were broken by the death sentences imposed upon them. Thirteen young German men were condemned to die, and without a trial were executed in a huge scale execution in front of the Ehrenfeld Train Station in Cologne.

The group had planned to blow up the Gestapo Headquarters in Cologne, and those who were imprisoned had been tortured terribly. But on the 10th November 1944, a large public gallows was made in front of the train station. This was huge and many of the individuals were hanged en masse on the gallows. Thirteen men were led out towards the structure and the scaffold, and there was a large crowd gathered to see what was happening. The thirteen men were then stood under the gallows, and there were six teenagers with Barthel Schink, Günther Schwarz and Johann Müller being just 16 when they were killed.