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The German Youth Movement (German: Die deutsche Jugendbewegung) is a collective term for a cultural and educational movement that started in 1896. It consists of numerous associations of young people that focus on outdoor activities. The movement included German Scouting and the Wandervogel. By 1938, 8 million children had joined associations ...
The female branch of the Nazi youth movement BDM Werk Glaube und Schönheit: League of German Girls Belief and Beauty Society: Organisation for girls aged 17 to 21 1938 Deutsche Arbeitsfront (DAF) German Labour Front: Nazi trade union organization 1933 Deutsche Christenbewegung: German Christians Movement: A Nazi Christian pressure group and ...
The Deutsche Jungenschaft vom 1 November 1929 (abbreviated as "d.j.1.11.") was part of this youth movement, founded by Eberhard Koebel in 1929. Christoph Probst was a member of the German Youth Movement, and Willi Graf was a member of Neudeutschland ("New Germany"), and the Grauer Orden ("Grey Convent"), which were illegal Catholic youth ...
The Edelweiss Pirates (German: Edelweißpiraten [ˈeːdl̩vaɪs.piˌʁaːtn̩] ⓘ) were a loosely organized group of youths opposed to the status quo of Nazi Germany. They emerged in western Germany out of the German Youth Movement of the late 1930s in response to the strict regimentation of the Hitler Youth.
The League of German Girls or the Band of German Maidens [1] (German: Bund Deutscher Mädel, abbreviated as BDM) was the girls' wing of the Nazi Party youth movement, the Hitler Youth. It was the only legal female youth organization in Nazi Germany .
The Wandervogel movement was refounded after World War II and exists in Germany to this day with around 5,000 members in many different associations, as well as in neighboring countries. [citation needed] In Japan, it is now a fairly renowned student club with activities like mountaineering, sawanobori and ski touring. [citation needed]
The Swing Youth (German: Swingjugend) were a youth counterculture of jazz and swing lovers in Germany formed in Hamburg in 1939. Primarily active in Hamburg and Berlin , they were composed of 14- to 21-year-old Germans, mostly middle or upper-class students, but also including some in the working class . [ 1 ]
The Hitler Youth (German: Hitlerjugend [ˈhɪtlɐˌjuːɡn̩t] ⓘ, often abbreviated as HJ, ⓘ) was the youth organisation of the Nazi Party in Germany. Its origins date back to 1922 and it received the name Hitler-Jugend, Bund deutscher Arbeiterjugend ("Hitler Youth, League of German Worker Youth") in July 1926. From 1936 until 1945, it was ...