1st Edition
Routledge Revivals: Young Germany (1962) A History of the German Youth Movement
First published in 1962, this book examines Germany’s Free Youth Movement, a revolt of the younger generation in Germany from 1896 to 1933. This movement was one of the most significant factors in shaping modern Germany. Laqueur, who grew up in Germany, retraces the history of the movement, its central ideas, and its cultural background. He begins with its origins in 19th century, and goes on to examine the Jewish question, before moving on to the movement’s roots in Germany around the time of the rise of National Socialism in the late 1920’s and early 1930’s. This book inspires all the ideas which continue to preoccupy proponents and students of generational conflict today.
Plates
Preface
Introduction by R. H. S. Crossman
Part One
1. Romantic Prelude
2. The Beginning
3. The New Style
4. At The Hohe Meissner
Part Two
5. Metapolitics
6. Blüher and Wyneken
7. The War of the Sexes
8. Other Youth Movements
9 . The Jewish Question
Part Three
10. The First World War
11. 1919 – Left Vs. Right
12. Years of Disillusion
13. The End of The Beginning
Part Four
14. The ‘White Knight’
15. Ernst Buske and The Freischar
16. Panorama or The Bünde
17. Tusk or The Triumph of Eccentricity
18. National Bolshevism
Part Five
19. In Hitler’s Shadow
20. The Road To Ruin
21. The Post-War Period
Conclusion
Appendix: The Foreign Policy of The Bünde
Bibliography
Index
Biography
Walter Laqueur
