In 1987, nearly 30 years ago, the comic "Das Karbidkommando" about the Dortmund Edelweiss Pirates was published for the first time. It was illustrated by Günter Rückert, who was advised by former Edelweiss Pirate Kurt Piehl and Prof. Hans Müller from the Dortmund History Workshop. The late 1980s were a time when the discussion about the long-suppressed and almost forgotten resistance of hundreds, even thousands, of proletarian youths along the Rhine and Ruhr was in full swing. How could the departure of girls and boys aged between 13 and 20 from the Hitler Youth and the Nazi regime be explained and interpreted? Their behavior shifted from quiet refusal to openly rejecting, anti-authoritarian, self-confidently provocative, and aggressively violent actions. In light of the coercion and violence of the Nazi regime, their initial response was...