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Today in History: Himmler orders crackdown on Edelweiss Pirates
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- On 25 October 1944, Reichsführer-SS Heinrich Himmler ordered a brutal crackdown on the Edelweiss Pirates, a loosely organized group of 14- to 17-year-old youths in western Germany who had fled the Hitler Youth and sheltered army deserters and other fugitives from Nazi persecution.