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Encyclopedia: Wandervogel

Wandervogel is the name adopted by a popular movement of German youth groups from 1896 onward. The name can be translated as migratory bird and the ethos is to shake off the restrictions of society and get back to nature and freedom. Soon the groups split and there originated ever more organisations, which still all called themselves Wandervogel, but were organisationally independent. Nonetheless the feeling was still of being a common movement, but split into several branches.

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	(Japanese)	ワンダーフォーゲル
	(German)	Wandervogel
	(French)	Wandervogel

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Hashomer Hatzair

Hashomer Hatzair is a Zionist-socialist youth movement founded in 1913 in Galicia (now in Poland). Initially Marxist-Zionist, the movement was influenced by the ideas of Ber Borochov as well as Baden-Powell and the German Wandervogel movement. Hashomer Hatzair believed that the liberation of...

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Pederasty

social acceptance of pederasty. This is exemplified by the Young Wandervogel movement, an organization similar to the Boy Scouts, but emphasizing a more romantic view of nature. Young Wandervogel was itself spawned by the Wandervogel movement and was quite open about its gay / pederastic tendencies...

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Ernst Jünger

Ernst Jünger (March 29, 1895 - February 17, 1998) was a German author. He was born in Heidelberg and grew up in Hanover as the son of a pharmacist. Jünger went to school between the years of 1901 and 1913 and was member of the "Wandervogel"-movement. He ran away from home to join the French...

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Scouting

German Youth Movement, of which the Wandervogel is a part. Both influenced each other heavily, which...

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