Bündische Jugend
Subtitle: eine neue Geschichte, 1918-1933
By: Rüdiger Ahrens
Series: Moderne Zeit : neue Forschungen zur Gesellschafts- und Kulturgeschichte des 19. und 20. Jahrhunderts -- Band XXVI; Moderne Zeit -- Bd. 26
Publisher: Wallstein Verlag
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Göttingen
Language: ger
Number of pages: 477
ISBN-13: 9783835317581
Copyright date: 2015
Subjects: Youth movements; History; Youth; Political activity; Biography; Social conditions
Description: This study of youth movements in Germany at the time of the Weimar Republic provides a historical overview of youth groups that is closely tied to the historical sources. The author discusses the organizational development and ideological alignment of the youth groups, along with the interactions they had with one another. He explains how youth groups originated as a result of WWI; what kind of mentality was produced by the youth-group education, with its strong emphasis on militarization and "courage;" and how youth groups reacted to the proposals and claims of the National Socialist movement. The results allow us to draw conclusions about the political situation of the time, and the ways in which it led to the erosion of the republic and the consolidation of Nazi rule. At the same time, this study shows the long-term effects that came about from youth groups.
Notes: Revised version of the author's dissertation--Universität Freiburg im Breisgau, 2014.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 421-472) and index.
Table of contents: title: Vorläufer; title: Formierung : 1914/18-1923; title: Konsolidierung und Opposition : 1923-1928; title: Offensive und Defensive : 1928-1933; title: Nachleben.