Editing Werwolf (section)

===In Germany===
From 1946 onward, Allied intelligence officials noted resistance activities by an organisation which had appropriated the name of the anti-Nazi resistance group, the ''Edelweiss Piraten'' ([[Edelweiss Pirates]]). The group was reported to be composed mainly of former members and officers of Hitler Youth units, ex-soldiers and drifters, and was described by an intelligence report as "a sentimental, adventurous, and romantically anti-social [movement]". It was regarded as a more serious menace to order than the Werwolf by US officials.<ref name=fritz>{{cite book | last = Fritz| first = Stephen G. | title = Endkampf: Soldiers, Civilians, and the Death of the Third Reich | publisher = University Press of Kentucky | year = 2004 | pages = [https://archive.org/details/endkampfsoldiers00frit_391/page/n236 218–19]| url =https://archive.org/details/endkampfsoldiers00frit_391| url-access = limited| isbn = 0-8131-2325-9}}</ref>

A raid in March 1946 captured 80 former German officers who were members, and who possessed a list of 400 persons to be liquidated, including [[Wilhelm Hoegner]], the prime minister of Bavaria. Further members of the group were seized with caches of ammunition and even anti-tank rockets. In late 1946 reports of activities gradually died away.<ref name=fritz/>