The Edelweiss Pirates by Dirk Reinhardt

Author:Dirk Reinhardt
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Steerforth Press
Published: 2021-10-15T00:00:00+00:00

22nd August 1943

So now we know what we are: a band of criminals. A “growth on the body of the nation that must be burnt out and destroyed”. That’s what it said in the newspaper—Lanky read it. Anyway, that’s how far we’ve gone now.

It was Flint’s idea. About two weeks ago. “We ought to do something really big,” he said. “Not just hiding leaflets in the bogs! Let’s climb the dome at the central station and rain them down on people from there. If it works, the whole of Cologne’ll be talking about it.”

At first we thought he’d flipped. But he was so excited by the idea and kept on about it for so long that he talked us into going down to the station to have a recce. He’d already been down there himself and planned it all out. He’d do the most dangerous part himself—climbing up with the leaflets—he explained. The rest of us should keep a lookout in case the cops turned up. We’d need one of us in each corner of the main hall and two of us in the middle—so right underneath him—disguised as a courting couple. The advantage of that was that they could see in all directions without attracting attention. If they stayed cuddled up it would mean all-clear. But as soon as they moved apart and started arguing, he’d have to take cover. That way they could warn him without immediately giving the game away.

The plan didn’t sound bad but when we looked up into the dome, we still felt a bit sick. I thought, isn’t this biting off a bit more than we can chew? The others had a few doubts too. But Flint was sure it’d work and cos Knuckles and Lanky were on his side, in the end we decided to go ahead.

We spent several days getting everything ready. Got the leaflets printed and hid them in the ruins of an old church. Then we spent as much time as we could hanging around the station to work out the best time for our plan and where we’d need to stand to keep everything in sight.

So yesterday was the day. We reckoned Tom and Floss would make the best lovers. Specially cos they’ve actually been a couple for a few weeks now. Flint reckoned they’d have the advantage of not having to pretend. They could just do what they do all the time anyway. He grinned at me and I knew what he meant. Since Floss hooked up with Tom, you can’t do a thing with the guy.

But then, the day before the action, Floss got sick. For a moment we thought about chucking it all in, but then we stuck to it cos we’d got everything so well planned and didn’t want to leave the leaflets hanging around for longer than we had to. So Tilly said she’d stand in for Floss. Tom reckoned that was OK but he still had the wind up a bit in case Floss got jealous of him fooling around with Tilly on the platform, even if it was only acting.

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